Web Site 2004-11-03 - By Joshua Slive
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:12:57 -0000, Emyr Tomos <emyr.tomos@(protected)> wrote:
> Ok I'm a little curious about something - two IP addresses?
> Surely the only way a single machine can have more than one IP address
> is to have two separate network interfaces - like two ethernet cards?
> Even if you could set one interface to answer to two different IP
> addresses, surely there would be only one port 80 between them?
> Sorry again for going off topic - this piqued my curiosity as it's a
> little lower-level than I normally go and goes against my (slight)
> understanding
No. On modern OSes, you can have many virtual interfaces on a single
network card. This is how people do IP-based virtual hosting, and it
works fine.
Joshua.
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