From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 5 12:26:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01241 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 12:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA01233 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 12:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id UAA17360; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 20:23:37 +0100 (BST) To: Doug White cc: M C Wong , freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: [2.1R] same IP address assigned to ed0 and ppp0 ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jul 1996 11:12:06 PDT." Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 20:23:36 +0100 Message-ID: <17358.836594616@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote in message ID : > On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, M C Wong wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong: FreeBSD 2.1R supports same IP addresses > > assigned onto different types of network interfaces, in particular a PPP > > interface and an Ethernet interface. > > I don't think so. You can assign multiple addresses to a single > interface, though. I think you can actually, since the routing code (from memory) uses the DESTINATION of a point-to-point link for it's routing decisions. It actually breaks some stuff (multicast I believe), but it SHOULD work fine for normal stuff. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info