Many IPs, One NIC? No Problem. If you've been wanting to bind
multiple IP addresses to a single NIC, now you can. The other
day I had to scold my son for trying to take his brother's
Popsicle after he'd finished his own. "Don't be greedy," I told
him. "You had yours, let Bubba have his." Of course, he started
crying, and I felt my resolve wavering. His tears brought me to
the verge of my own tears, but I stuck to my guns and he got the
message: Greed is bad. The next day, I received this e-mail from
a reader named Prasad: I've been trying to add multiple IP
addresses to the same NIC interface using WMI and didn't have
any success. On UNIX platforms, this can be easily done using
ifconfig. I'm hoping there is an equivalent on Windows, but I
couldn't find any. My first thought was: Why do you need so many
IP addresses? You need to share! After I stopped thinking like a
father, I realized there were lots of reasons you might want to
bind multiple IP addresses to a single NIC. A Web server with
multiple virtual s