Mulithoming..

[Andrew G. Hammond]

Briefly, yes. Assuming that the "routers" listed below are either real 
routers or some kind of firewalling solution, it would also be 
reasonably secure. The question "why do it" comes to mind. The only 
thing I can think of is a local admin network or some kind of VPN 
trickery, which actually makes sense.

Drew


JM wrote:

>On Monday 13 October 2003 19:44, Fraser Campbell wrote:
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>>On Monday 13 October 2003 02:41, JM wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>I don't see why not.  Of course the IP won't be globally routable so why do
>>it?
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>ill be placing in a new server w/c will be used as a database server which i 
>dont want it to have a global IP.
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>this is my current disected network structure..
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>LAN --switch1--router1 ---modem1------------(LOCAL LOOP)---------------modem2 
>--router2--switch2--myboxes
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>switch2 is owned by the datacenter... without adding any boxes or NIC card or 
>etc would it possible to add private IPs on myboxes using the same interface 
>card w/c is currently used for public IP?
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>would IP aliasing do the trick?
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>eth0 = GLOBAL_IP
>eth0:0 = 192.168.8.1
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>>>if yes? what are the things to be considered? do the application need to
>>>be multihomed capable? are there any security implications on this?
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>>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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