Mulithoming..

Fraser Campbell fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 13 11:44:19 UTC 2003


On Monday 13 October 2003 02:41, JM wrote:

> I have box with 1 NIC using a Global IP.  I was wondering is it possible to
> using multihoming wherein that same NIC will be assigned an internal IP?

I don't see why not.  Of course the IP won't be globally routable so why do 
it?

> if yes? what are the things to be considered? do the application need to be
> multihomed capable? are there any security implications on this?

Why do it at all?  What applications will be listening, if you can tell us the 
intention perhaps we can give you some more/better advice ...

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