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From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2 Class C on 1 machine??
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:39:20 -0400
Organization: Crystal Wind Communications
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tedm@portsoft.com wrote:
>
> It sounds like you need to host more than 256 virtual domains on your FreeBSD
> machine, no?
>
> If you try the scheme that your are thinking of doing, your probably going to
> freak out your router, because you will be having arps with the same
> MAC address coming from both subnets. It would be interesting to try it
> and see what happens, though.
With FreeBSD boxes it will work just fine. With three different BSDi it
would only work for a few minutes then the BSDi boxes would loose the
MAC address of the router. Said BSDi boxen are now FreeBSD and happily
residing on two different class Cs with a single NIC each.
--
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their
home."
-- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society
Convention, 1977