From: Ellen K. 

Do you think I could use this for hot failover?   I.e. have a standby
SQL Server box with the boot partition cloned and full transactional
replication of the database and if the production box fails just change the
IP address of the clone?

On Sun, 29 May 2005 00:54:56 -0700, "Rich"  wrote in message
:

>   Yes and Windows 2000 too.  What probably has gotten better are applications
that register to be notified of network configuration changes and respond
so that they don't need to be restarted.  NotifyAddrChange and
NotifyRouteChange, two such APIs, were introduced in Windows 2000.
>
>   I'm curious why George had to reboot unless he was running a third party
network service that did not include support for address changes.
>
>Rich
>
>  "Ellen K."  wrote in message
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>  Does that also apply to Server 2003?  Because that would solve one
>  important issue I have at work.
>
>  On Sat, 28 May 2005 12:56:59 -0400, Mike N. 
>  wrote in message :
>
>  >On Fri, 27 May 2005 16:47:16 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>  >
>  >>Ok so how about listing some of the features you think makes XP worth
>  >>upgrading to?
>  >
>  >  To me, just being able to change the IP address without rebooting makes
>  >it worthwhile.  Sometimes 2000 would be able to do this, but most of the
>  >time I had to reboot.

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