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Re: new ip-alias in 1.3.59
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernd Eckenfels)
Tue Feb 6 19:21:59 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: ukd1@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: 6 Feb 1996 21:26:21 GMT
Michael Brennen (mbrennen@fni.com) 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.
It should be enough to route the logical host not to the alias interface:
route add -host second.ip.number.s dev lo
Anyone can confirm?
Greetings
Bernd
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