Can two network adapters work in different IP protocols simultaneously?

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Can two network adapters work in different IP protocols simultaneously?

My laptop has two network adapters, one is wireless and connected wirelessly to a wireless router, another one is wired and connected to a network supported IPv6 with cable. The question is , can I assign different network request to different network adapter? For instance, assign IPv4 request to wireless adapter and assign IPv6 request to wired adapter? Or is there a software can handle this? Any help is appreciated! FYI, the OS in this topic is either Windows 7 or Mac OS X.

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Yes. When you go into the network adaptor properties in Windows 7 you can tick and untick the protocols...

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