setting IP address manually

[Bruno Wolff III]

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.