Proxies and other nonsense.

[hackwrench]

I've been reading post that seem to suggest that you need a proxy or different ports to use more than one client for a server on one IP address. The OSI model provides for separate sessions on the same port on the same IP address. It doesn't matter how many clients you are using.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

I have an associate's degree in Computer Information Sciences subspecialty networking

[swusc2]

If you are talking about the Bitcoin client, I don't understand why anyone would need to run more than 1 Bitcoin client.

If you are talking about mining cliemts, you are incorrect in your assumption.