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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ethernet interface perversity
Message-ID: <2878@phri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 22:50:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 22:50:42 1987
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In <862@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
# If this is so it is a software problem.  I can see no reason why UNIX (say)
# couldn't be set up to respond to ARP requests for more than one IP address
# per interface.

	The Kinetics KFPS Ethernet-to-AppleTalk bridge box (at least when
loaded with the Stanford KIP gateway code) is quite capable of responding to
multiple IP addresses using a single ethernet address.  If KIP can do it, I
don't see any reason why a UNIX kernel can't.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016