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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP address Date: 12 Nov 1995 10:39:58 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corp Lines: 22 Message-ID: <484itu$m0k@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <47pjkm$mq3@eon.ecco.com> <47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ozyd13-p3.ozy.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com I dont know why the user posted his request but the ability to multihome is very useful for many applications. PPP over ISDN is a good example where a multihoming if would be handy i.e. one if with many adresses as opposed to many if's with many addresses. As I seeem to remember most of the commercial UNIXes support multihoming in one form or another (Digital UNIX dont tho!). Jon -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dr Jon Jenkins Location: Digital Equipment Corporation NaC Voice/Fax: 61-7-55-75-0151/100 Burnett Place, Research Park, Inet: jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com Bond University, Gold Coast Close Proximity: "HEY YOU !!!" QLD, AUSTRALIA 4229 "Daddy, what's outside the Universe?" (My 5 year old.....) -----------------------------------------------------------------------