Enable double ip addresses

Hello,

we are

developing a special software for which we need the ability to assign

the same ip address to several network adapters within the same windows

computer.
When I configure 2 network interfaces to the same ip

address, connect them to 2 physical different networks, one adapter

gets the ip address '0.0.0.0' and is therefore disabled, as windows

recognizes this conflict.

In Linux I can assign the same ip

address to several network interfaces and an application can accept

connections to this ip address, whereby it does not matter on which

network adapter the other participant is conntected.
I need this functionality also in windows.

Does someone know how this control function can be disabled under Windows?

Thanks!

Wolfgang

[838 byte] By [wgwolf] at [2008-1-21]
# 1
While I do not know if such functionality is still supported in XP & 2003... you might try disabling gratuitous ARPs.
BrendanGrant at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Networking Development,Network Quality of Service (QoS/qWAVE)...
# 2
Thank you for the tip, but in my Windows 2000 installation with the latest Service Pack this does not work. First the registry entry doesn't exist and second when I create the entry it seems to be ignored completely.
Does there exist an other switch/configuration possibility?
wgwolf at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Networking Development,Network Quality of Service (QoS/qWAVE)...
# 3

Unfortunately that was my only idea and even then skeptical as I couldn’t find any documentation on its use in XP or 2003.

I’d suggest posing this question in a Windows/networking admin type forum instead of a programming one like this as the folks there are more likely to know all of the little tweaks necessary to make a system purr just the way they want.

BrendanGrant at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Networking Development,Network Quality of Service (QoS/qWAVE)...
# 4
they discuss with me about the application and see what I have to realize as crazy, although this works fine with linux.
can you suggest a good forum?
wgwolf at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Networking Development,Network Quality of Service (QoS/qWAVE)...

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