On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:20:30 -0400, David-Paul Niner <dpniner@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I have to wonder, however, why in the world you would want to bind the > same ip address to more than one interface? For purposes of failover > you'd be better off binding a second address from the same network > (although that can cause issues, depending on what the box in question > is doing). For purposes of packet forwarding they'd have to be on > different networks. Because I was uing the FC4 box as a firewall for a windows box and I wanted to have the windows box think the FC4 box had the same IP that the rest of the world did. I was essentially using a pointopoint connection to the windows box. Though I did this by changing the ifup-eth script to allow me to specify the remote IP address separately from the interface IP address. I could have done this by setting up bridging instead, but this seemed easier.
