From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:51:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:51:23 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:12810 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:51:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3B986042.9050405@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:50:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Greear CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip aliasbug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19] In-Reply-To: <20010906212303.A23595@castle.nmd.msu.ru> <20010906173948.502BFBC06C@spike.porcupine.org> <9n8ev1$qba$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <3B985FC6.B41000A3@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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