On Tuesday 31 December 2002 00:14, Martin A. Brown wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> It's a good thought, Daniel, but he is restricted by his /30 network.
> This means he only has two IPs, hence his need for a bridging device.
>
> [ Gilles, you should be able to enter a static route from each of these
> hosts to an RFC1918 address on the bridge itself (as Stef Coene had
> suggested), and per http://bridge.sourceforge.net/docs/bridge.html.
> the ARP will work just fine--no need for static entries in ARP tables. ]
>
> Setting the problem of the tiny network aside, I'm interested in your
> suggestion, Daniel, that he use the same IP on both interfaces of the
> box--I've not tried that before.
>
> Do you have an example config?
> Have you seen any problems with this configuration?
I tried it once on a firewall with 3 interfaces with the same ip-address and
it worked very well. You just have to be sure you configure the right
routing.
Stef
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