[114472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: two interfaces one subnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue May 12 00:12:56 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <59f980d60905112043v6775a81n8498f3608666c0b2@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 00:12:43 -0400
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On May 11, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net
> > wrote:
>> Do you even read your own posts? Specifically:
>>
>> On May 11, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Either way, if
>>> the packet *from* X was addressed *to* B but the response comes back
>>> from *A*, then host X is going to drop the packet as
>>> invalid/irrelevant/etc.
>>
>> The receiving host X does not care (or even know) if A and B are in
>> the same
>> prefix.
>
> Look again. A and B are *IP addresses*, not hosts.
Sometimes people agree with me, sometimes they don't, and sometimes I
agree with them. But I've yet to have someone claim to be arguing
against me while proving my point.
Anyone else want to unconfused Ben? I obviously cannot.
--
TTFN,
patrick
