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> From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:54:34 -0500
> Subject: Re: proxy ARP on ethernet??
> 
> <<On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:04:31 -0500 (EST), "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> said:
> 
> > 	You should be able to set it up so that you only have to use different
> > *IP addresses* on each interface.
> 
> No you should not be able to do so.  It might be possible, but only
> because of insufficient error checking in the kernel.
> 
> - -GAWollman

You can have two network cards with IP numbers on the same subnet - in 
which case, however, all data is sent just through the first one and *no* 
fowarding or routing is done (there no way other than hacking to make it 
do so).

	Sander.