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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!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD dialin Server routing ? Date: 22 Dec 1996 16:10:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <59jmgv$eos@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32AF2BA8.4453@ozemail.com.au> <58qdtl$j8o@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32986 brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) wrote: (PPP and Ethernet using same (local) address.) > : 2. Is this the way to do it .. ? > > Not IMHO, but I know of several people that would argue this. I think > from a "purist" point of view, no two interfaces should have the same > IP, ... This rule doesn't hold for p2p interfaces, since the routing code takes the _remote_ peer's address into account there. Hence, the non-ambiguity rule holds for any local Ethernet address and any _remote_ p2p address there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)