Hello! > People tend to use private blocks in a chasis (unique IP for each blade) > - which by default are not routed outside the chasis. > > I have a feeling this is what you meant No, since this tends to interfere with the outside network using the same private (RFC 1918) addresses. People generally don't expect network equipment to collide with their perfectly legal addressing plan. On the other hand, if the manufacturer gets a small block of public addresses and uses it in all his devices (the same block everywhere) for internal purposes only (no packet ever escapes), everything is perfectly correct and no collisions can arise. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
