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Re: new ip-alias in 1.3.59

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Brennen)
Tue Feb 6 10:36:36 1996

Date: 	Tue, 6 Feb 1996 08:26:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Brennen <mbrennen@fni.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960206093230.17519A-100000@raiz.uncu.edu.ar>

On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Juan Jose Ciarlante wrote:

> _If_ the new alias belongs to the same eth0 logical network (eg a.b.c.0
> through eth0) when you send a pkt to a.b.c.d, it will be handled by
> eth0. This will result in an ARP request, and the ARP layer will complain
>  "ARP request for own IP address".
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is there a reasonable way around this?  In particular it makes reviewing a
virtual Web site impossible from the same machine that the hosting is
done.  That is the only place I can run lynx to check how it looks in a
text browser. 

Michael



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