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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system? Date: 18 Jan 1997 22:06:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5brhi0$2vp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5aqmnv$m5k@innocence.interface-business.de> <5ar8e1$prf@nike.volvo.se> <5ari97$o01@innocence.interface-business.de> <6OVunZMMNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5b05fe$4aj@innocence.interface-business.de> <5bqqbl$8tr@colwyn.owl.de> 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.bsdi.misc:5640 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34196 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1945 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5197 tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) wrote: > > Every interface needs a distinct IP address (with the exception > > that for pointopoint links (SLIP, PPP), ... > > Not exactly correct. You can use one IP address on one network interface > e.g. Ethernet and as many point to point interfaces as you want. But that's only since the restriction ``moves'' to the remote end's IP address then, i.e. you can't have two links with the same remote address. -- 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. ;-)