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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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- Subject: Re: Same ether address on 2 interfaces of router ?
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 16:26:49 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <BuEx7v.1I0@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> edwardsc@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Chris Edwards) writes:
- >Does this mean it is changing the 'effective' ethernet addresses so the
- >2 interfaces are the same ? (or could I be doing something silly ?)
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- Yes. The only time this causes trouble is if you want both interfaces to
- connect to the same ethernet (which you might do if you had two subnets on
- one physical net).
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- Barry Margolin
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