On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Zacarías Lecumberri Sánchez wrote: > The Linux NET-3-HOWTO states at section 5.1.4 that it is legal to use the > same IP address on each interface of a single machine in some circumstances. And I hope this will stay that way. > I suspect the NET-3-HOWTO assesment is in error. > If it's not I would appreciate the explanation and some example. I am using this feature for one ethernet, and some point2point-tunneling-devices. This way I only spend one IP on the tunnel host, and one (for the remote end) on each tunnel. Otherwise I would need two addresses for each tunnel. (Yes, I'm using real ips, not some private range) c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
