> You don't have to have a per interface IP address or DNS (or indeed MAC > address), but they must be at least per host (and virtual machines with > their own IP stack are a host). IP is quite happy with that situation.
I'd argue that you will have more problems trying to make this work reliably than just doing it the way I described. If you've got time to debug this and all the paths have equivalent permissions and usability characteristics, then yes, it's technically possible. You just have to have a lot of free time to figure out what happened when it doesn't work, and personally, I've got better things to do. > If every instance of the address is owned by the same machine this is > untrue - it doesn't matter which interface it arrives upon. IP is like > postal mail, you can have ten mail boxes all with the same number > providing they are for the same house and nobody gets confused. Key phrase: "and nobody gets confused". Big if. Also, you're dealing with the Royal Mail. 8-) > > (the only reason that your setup hasn't already fallen is that some of > > the older IBM stacks permitted this configuration error. The new ones > > don't.) > Sounds like a new added bug as you describe it. Not from a diagnostic standpoint. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
