In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> > > Machines don't have IP numbers. Interfaces have IP numbers. Every
>> > > machine
>> >
>> > Actually, that's not quite the case (as a number of users of Linux's ARP
>> > implementation have found), though it's a good approximation.
>This portion is unclear to me; could you shed some light ?
>
>Do you mean:
[wrong guesses omitted]
A machine may use the same IP on multiple interfaces.
A machine may use multiple IP addresses on a single interface.
The two may be combined.
A router may use proxy arp.
A machine may use the same ethernet address on multiple interfaces on
different physical networks. This tends not to work well with vlans.
(switches pretending to be multiple networks)
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