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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, SNMP, and Bridges
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Date: 13 May 91 16:31:08 GMT
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In-Reply-To: kasten@EUROPA.CLEARPOINT.COM's message of 13 May 91 13:26:50 GMT

In article <9105131326.AA01179@europa.clearpoint.com> kasten@EUROPA.CLEARPOINT.COM (Frank Kastenholz) writes:

   An IP router MUST have different IP addresses on its interfaces. Remember,
   the purpose of an IP Router is to forward packets between different
   IP networks and different IP Networks have different IP Network/Subnetwork
   numbers, therefore the addresses will be different.

I don't think that necessarily follows -- seems to me that KA9Q NOS
gets by (if you so desire) with one IP address for the whole box, and
routing done on a per interface basis.  Or am I missing something ?

--Ed