In news:XvWdneqZMMVOmb7VnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d@earthlink.co m,
nospam <nospam@spamnot.net> typed:

> I am trying to figure out how to connect two computers, A and B,
> so that they can connect to each other using TCP and UDP, and
> so that I can tell one computer to send some data over their
> wireless 802.11 connection, different data over the gigabit lan
> connection, and still other data over a satellite connection

Why would you want to do that?

> The computers dual boot XP and linux and I need this to
> work in any OS mix.

Simplification is your friend.

> For starters, I suppose each computer could have several IP
> addresses, one for each type of connection, so that connecting with
> sockets on a particular kind of connection reduces to knowing which
> IP address routes over each? For this to work I need a router that I
> can configure somehow? Not sure.

Obviously, you're not even sure what you want to do, or why.