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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: 2 (or more) LAN interface on SAME subnet ?
To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:38:36 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <9512182157.AA08392@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Dec 18, 95 04:57:57 pm
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> <<On Mon, 18 Dec 95 10:20:28 EDT, M C Wong <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com> said:
> > work, at least in theory. From memory there is no restriction on 
> > physical interface and logical subnet. Please correct me if this is
> > not true.
> 
> This is not true.  The Internet Architecture requires that logical
> subnets be fully-connected.  The BSD Architecture requires that every
> network interface be connected to a unique subnet.

You mean "logical network interface", right?

Otherwise you're saying you can't use bridges on subnets...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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