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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD dialin Server routing ? Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 06:21:21 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32B7FDE1.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <32AF2BA8.4453@ozemail.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: flakey@ozemail.com.au Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32745 Jon Harsem II wrote: > Two questions : > 1. Can iijppp and the NIC on the FreeBSD machine have the same IP > address ? Yes. > 2. Is this the way to do it .. ? No, not really. :-) Even though the former works, it is frowned upon due to the unpleasant secondary effects which are made possible by having two interfaces with the same address. It can also be confusing to the human mind, which has problems with ambiguity and more easily grasps a setup where the ethernet connected hosts all use one subnet and the point-to-point links all transit through a different subnet. It also makes mrouted(8) happier to route packets, should you ever decide to run multicast traffic. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project