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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!unidus.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!mueller.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!dvs From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: HELP: How to have 2 Host IP nums but only 1 interface Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 12:51:22 GMT Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany Lines: 13 Message-ID: <dvs.164.742740682@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <mckay.742682655@cambridge> <1993Jul15.092609.3906@fokus.gmd.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mueller.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de Keywords: interface ip network routing host sun In article <1993Jul15.092609.3906@fokus.gmd.de> jbm@fokus.gmd.de (Joerg Micheel) writes: >but there are situations, where you really don't know, which IP address to >pick (during connection establishment, ARP and IP processing). > >Could someone else comment this in more detail ? There could be useful appications of multiple ip numbers, for example if the machine in question shall serve as the gateway between two logical subnets on the same physical ethernet, when each of the different ip numbers is in a different subnet. In this case the ip number to be used would be obvious in every case. Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>, Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.