During the past couple months of Internet service switching I was hoping to get some type of service that would allow me one or more static IP's. But in the end I found myself back on cable again, with nothing but DHCP. Static addresses wishes dashed, I then wondered if it was possible to get multiple IP's, even if they were randomly assigned.

Basically I wanted to see if it was possible to get multiple DHCP-allocated addresses on a single machine and from the same physical network/DHCP servers. This may sound unusual, impossible or pointless, but I had some uses in mind... and since my router is a PC running Linux rather than some proprietary device, I figured there was probably a way to do it. One of the appeals was the idea that I could have traffic from my public (open wireless) originate from a different public IP than my private local networks. So I set about playing with DHCP to see what I could do.

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