Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip aliasbug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19]

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:50:58 -0700

Ben Greear wrote:
>
> That will always work, even when you have multiple ethernet
> interfaces??
>

It better. Otherwise you'd have the machine sending packets out one
interface and in the other, and the two networks might not even be
connected...

-hpa

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