[114426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: two interfaces one subnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon May 11 16:34:15 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:34:05 -0400
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On May 11, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Chris Meidinger wrote:
> This is a pretty moronic question, but I've been searching RFC's on-
> and-off for a couple of weeks and can't find an answer. So I'm
> hoping someone here will know it offhand.
>
> I've been looking through RFC's trying to find a clear statement
> that having two interfaces in the same subnet does not work, but
> can't find it that statement anywhere.
>
> The OS in this case is Linux. I know it can be done with clever
> routing and prioritization and such, but this has to do with vanilla
> config, just setting up two interfaces in one network.
>
> I would be grateful for a pointer to such an RFC statement, assuming
> it exists.
Why would an RFC prohibit this?
Most _implementations_ do, but as far as network "rules" in general it
is a valid configuration.
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TTFN,
patrick
