setting IP address manually
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Tue Oct 25 02:44:43 UTC 2005
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:20:30 -0400,
David-Paul Niner <dpniner at dpniner.net> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> I have to wonder, however, why in the world you would want to bind the
> same ip address to more than one interface? For purposes of failover
> you'd be better off binding a second address from the same network
> (although that can cause issues, depending on what the box in question
> is doing). For purposes of packet forwarding they'd have to be on
> different networks.
Because I was uing the FC4 box as a firewall for a windows box and I wanted
to have the windows box think the FC4 box had the same IP that the rest
of the world did.
I was essentially using a pointopoint connection to the windows box. Though
I did this by changing the ifup-eth script to allow me to specify the
remote IP address separately from the interface IP address.
I could have done this by setting up bridging instead, but this seemed
easier.
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