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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!news.dseg.ti.com!news From: rnestor@ti.com (Bob Nestor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Two devices with same IP Date: 21 Nov 1996 14:36:29 GMT Organization: Systems Group, Texas Instruments Lines: 34 Message-ID: <571pde$mp8@sf18.dseg.ti.com> References: <56ltqk$nhv@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <56lvvc$62f$1@gail.ripco.com> <32920988.63E7@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: rnestor@metronet.com,rnestor@ti.com NNTP-Posting-Host: cna0188378-01.dseg.ti.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <32920988.63E7@www.play-hookey.com>, kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com says... > >Brian Somers wrote: >> >> In article <328EF58B.16E4@www.play-hookey.com>, >> Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: >> : I have no problem with that. My gateway/mailserver/Webserver/etc. is >> : running FreeBSD 2.1R. It uses a 33.6k modem for connection to my ISP, >> : and an NE2100 clone (lnc0) for my local network. Both ports have the >> : same IP address, and work fine with no trouble. Since they are both >> : attached to the same box, neither my ISP nor my local network (nor >> : anyone else) have any trouble indentifying this box as a unique node. >> >> Of course this assumes that all but one of the interfaces have a netmask >> of 0xffffffff :) >> > >Sorry, brian, but no. From my /etc/sysconfig file: > > >network_interfaces="cuaa1 lnc0 lo0" >ifconfig_cuaa1="inet 206.161.179.129 netmask 255.255.255.224" >ifconfig_lnc0="inet 206.161.179.129 netmask 255.255.255.224 mtu 1006" >ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost" > >Seems to still be working fine. One should never assume that software (or a system configuration) is bug-free due to the absence of observable errors. It might prove interesting to do some low-level traces and see what's really happening.