IP without being on a network?

[Bryan Kortez]

Is there anyway to emulate a network connection?

Here is what I am trying to do.

I have a license service running on my computer. The software that looks for the license service requires an IP address. When I am on my home network I have my internal IP set static to 192.168.1.110, so it all works fine. If I wanted to take my laptop to say the pub and do some work without a network connection, I would not be able to use my software as it can't find itself at 192.168.1.110 as it hasn't assigned an IP as it's not on a network..


Hope somebody can understand what I am trying to get at

 

[Bryan Kortez]

ahhhhh Thats clever! I'll give it a test on my spare PC that isn't on the network. That will be perfect if it works. Thanks a bunch

 

[Bryan Kortez]

I set the router so it only assigns between .2 to .99, so it can never assign anything with .100 or more stopping any IP's getting doubled up. Then I set things like my PC, server etc static via each device on the network adapter settings.