Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:00:51 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, 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> In-Reply-To: <20010301234414.Y25974@prism.flugsvamp.com> 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>
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Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> 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
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