Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:
It's a routing optimization for the network. Even if your dual-homed machine isn't a router, it's still on both segments. The alternative is that the net has to route your packet to the other segment.
Erm no, the alternative is that both segments mind their own business unless I'm routing either through the host or another router.
Except that there will never be a ARP request for an IP which belongs to the other segment if your network is built correctly.
Exactly. Unless both segments feature the same private IP address range, which isn't impossible nor disallowed.
Anyway, not mine to reason why. Thanks for explaining this to me.
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