On 14 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is easily accomplished with 'dummy' or aliased interfaces on most
> any unix or unix clone i am aware of. Even windows NT has the
> capability to bind more than one IP address to a single physical network
> adapter.
I think what Jimi is saying is that 2 separate machines both share a
single IP address, rather than a single machine having more than 1 IP
address bound to a NIC.
The only way I can see this working is if the machines are not both in
use at the same time (ie. 2 machines have the same IP, but there's only
1 of them ever switched on at any time). Hence, they both effectively
have the same IP.
The alternative is, as you say Jimi, that you misheard, and your Dad
meant that a single machine has multiple IP addresses.
Tim.
> On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 05:14:04PM -0500, Jimi Aleshin wrote:
>> My dad works at the Department of Defense for the U.S government and was
>> telling me that he has like 200 computers in the area of where they work and
>> (of course) a server. He was telling me (I might have heard him wrong) that
>> 2 machines are able to have the same IP address on their own local network.
>> I don't know if this is true or not? By the way, those computers are not
>> connected to the internet, except two unclassified ones are. What do you all
>> think?
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