From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 20 10: 7:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from unix.aecinfo.com (tor-44.wan.aecinfo.com [209.146.217.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0522E14A20 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mit@aecinfo.com) Received: from p225l (tor-97.sales.aecinfo.com [209.146.217.97]) by unix.aecinfo.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA21430 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:07:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mit@aecinfo.com) Reply-To: From: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" To: "FreeBSD-Stable" Subject: IP aliasing Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:07:35 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I noticed on another server's box that they alias IP addresses to their loopback interface rather than their Ethernet interface. Is their any benefit/detriment to doing this? (conf: i386/3.3-stable/3Com 3c905B-TX[PCI 10/100 Fast Etherlink XL], on a sub netted network) -Mit -- Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Director of Internet Technology AEC InfoCenter, Inc. e: mitayai@aecinfo.com v: +1 416 489 9000 xt 303 f: +1 416 489-3201 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message