Virtual Networking

[Darrin Chandler]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:07:23PM -0500, Michael Vanecek wrote:
> a USB network adapter. However, isn't it possible to assign 2 network 
> addresses to a single NIC? As in, the physical interface being 

It's absolutely possible, and it's pretty easy to alias another address
on your NIC. It was also fool a fair amount (most) software. The reality
is that it's all on one cable, though, so the security of doing that is
limited. If all you're worried about are viruses then it should do the
trick. If someone trojans one of the computers and starts sniffing then
they'll see through the scheme in a heartbeat.

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