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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:03:37 -0400 From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com> To: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Configuring the same IP on multiple addresses Hi All Does anyone have a reason why Linux allows one to configure the same IP or IPv6 address on multiple interfaces? For IPv4, since linux implements a weak host model, assigning duplicate addresses doesn't make any sense, since the addresses really belong to the host and not the interface. For IPv6, I can see allowing duplicate link-locals since that's perfectly valid from the protocol perspective. However, duplicate globals are shouldn't be allows from the perspective of the address architecture. So, I am looking for technical reasons why this is permitted. Thanks -vlad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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