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Setting up multiple IP address on one Ethernet card is a cinch in Linux. I’ve done this for some time now so that I can setup virtual hosting on my development server. I’ve got several web sites called dev1, dev2, dev3, and so on. When I’m ready to work on a project I just check it out of subversion and go to work. When I finished the project I delete the folder and start over the process over.

Anyhow, recently I was playing with IIS and was curious if this could be done on the windows platform. Turns out it is as easy as pie.

1. Click the start menu, type "control panel" and hit enter, click on "View network status and tasks".

2. Click on "Manage network connections"

3. Right click on the device you want to add the IP address to and click properties.

4. Double click on "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP /IPv4)" if that is the protocol your using.

5. Click on advanced.

6. Click on add.

7. Enter in your IP information and subnet mask. Finally click "Add …" to finished.

Your new IP has been added!

Make sure you click "OK" to exit out of all the dialog windows you’ve open up to make sure the setting takes. Upon up a command prompt and type in ipconfig /all to verify that it’s been added.