How to programatically create virtual IP Addresses in VB?

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What I want to do is use one PC to test an application on another on the same 19.2.168.X.X

I would like to make it seem like SOAP requests are coming from a variety of different PCs, just to make the applciations log file easier to read and I have been told that virtual IP Addresses are the way to go. So, how do I defien a range and then use them one by one in VB? (I guss that this is effectively IP header spooging?)

Why does this remind me of CSI? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/175545/worst-technobabble-youve-ever-heard/175584#175584 — OregonGhost, Aug 04 '10 at 09:16
"What have you come up with so far?" ... well, I posted here :-) and then I rephrased the question which hopefully makes it clearer what I am trying to do. — Mawg says reinstate Monica, Aug 04 '10 at 11:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '10 at 09:10

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Not exactly sure what you want to do but I'd suggest first looking at the WMI class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration to see if you can do what you want with it.

If that class does not support it you might have to use INetCfg instead, where I think you can change pretty much any network settings, but it's a bit more difficult to use. Here's a codeproject article for using INetCfg from C# which might at least show you how to get started.

answered Aug 04 '10 at 09:10

Hans Olsson

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You'd want the EnableStatic() method. It accepts multiple IP addresses. – MSalters Aug 04 '10 at 12:12

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '10 at 09:14

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If you just want to create a random IP address, generate 4 random numbers from 0 to 255 and glue some dots between them.

answered Aug 04 '10 at 09:14

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+1 O suppose I asked for that. Ok, I have made the question clearer (I hope) – Mawg says reinstate Monica Aug 04 '10 at 11:21

How to programatically create virtual IP Addresses in VB?

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