From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 2 4: 1:49 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208EE37B718; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 04:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@dotat.at) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.20 #3) id 14YoEt-0000vq-00; Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:00:51 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:00:51 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: Garrett Wollman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_input.c Message-ID: <20010302120051.D412@hand.dotat.at> References: <200103012339.f21NdW309088@freefall.freebsd.org> <15006.60555.97100.465265@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010301184258.T25974@prism.flugsvamp.com> <15006.61041.727634.597339@nomad.yogotech.com> <200103020236.VAA06356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200103020236.VAA06356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010301234414.Y25974@prism.flugsvamp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010301234414.Y25974@prism.flugsvamp.com> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Lemon wrote: > >The cases where the system is configured as a non-gateway machine but >is supposed to receive packets on the 'wrong' interface are not that >common. Also, I will point out that we now have alternate mechanisms >for accomplishing the same thing; e.g. the configuration you >described above could be set up by adding an alias of the ethernet >interface to the FDDI interface for each machine. A configuration I have used in the past for virtual hosting systems is to configure aliases on the loopback interface in order to avoid problems with ARP: we had a number of machines on the same network with the same addresses, and we could handle failure by directing routes away from the broken machine. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at WIGHT PORTLAND: EASTERLY 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6. WINTRY SHOWERS. GOOD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message