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Re: multiple IP# for one IF ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H. Peter Anvin)
Sat May 6 21:49:25 1995
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: hpa@asgard.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 7 May 1995 01:04:59 GMT
Reply-To: Peter.Anvin@linux.org (H. Peter Anvin)
Followup to: <199505062123.RAA00909@interbev.mindspring.com>
By author: Robert Sanders <rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.net
>
> Really? Quite a few people complain about dummy devices not responding to
> ARP requests. I don't think dummy devices correctly deal with the case
> of having two networks on one wire; the ipalias patches go out of their
> way to choose the mose comfortable source address for outgoing packets,
> etc.
>
You need an explicit `arp -s' command to advertise it. It is,
admittedly, rather klugy. I think ifconfig alias and the dummy
interface both have their uses; in fact, with ifconfig alias there is
no longer the need for the sometimes requested patch for multiple
dummy interfaces.
/hpa
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