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Is it possible to create multiple connections with same port?
Is it possible to connect through them simultaneously/combine them?

P.S: I am on windows 10

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  • short answer, no. Long answer, you can create teh network connections but only one will be used if both are valid for a given destination, they will not aggregate bandwidth for requests, or do anything else useful, unless they are actually acting as a router. Nov 13, 2015 at 19:37

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Is it possible to create multiple connections with same port?

With VLANs, it is. This requires you have a switch/router that supports VLANs and that it is configured correctly.

Is it possible to connect through them simultaneously/combine them?

  • If by "combine them" you mean bonding or teaming, I think you can do that, but it'd be pointless.

  • "Combining" two connections to two separate networks as in private networks doesn't make sense. You have hosts that live in one network or the other, and sending traffic to a network that your destination host isn't on will not do anything useful.

  • If by "network" you mean "path to Internet" - you cannot "combine" them unless you are working with a protocol that supports the notion of a single flow associated with multiple IPs.

    • TCP/IP does not.
    • SCTP does, but SCTP is a specialized protocol and you can't do the usual thing like browse websites, etc. with it.
    • If you can have two instances of an application working on a single dataset without conflict, you can then run two instances of that application, each sending/receiving from a separate IP. Unless your application uses something like SQL to store data, it won't work. You can't modify an existing application to work this way without a lot of work.
    • Specifically, Bittorrent won't work.
    • You can have an alternate path to the Internet available as a failover or backup in case the other path goes down, though.
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  • by multiple connectionsd I mean giving multiple ips to the same ethernet port at the same time..is that doable somehow? Nov 14, 2015 at 6:37

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