Completely off topic but, does this subject make anyone else immediately think of 2girls1cup? I blame the internets for my making this correlation... ------Original Message------ From: Martin Hannigan To: Patrick W. Gilmore Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: two interfaces one subnet Sent: May 12, 2009 11:06 AM On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>wrote:

On May 11, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:

Do you even read your own posts? Specifically:

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On May 11, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

Either way, if

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the packet *from* X was addressed *to* B but the response comes back from *A*, then host X is going to drop the packet as invalid/irrelevant/etc.

The receiving host X does not care (or even know) if A and B are in the same prefix.

Look again. A and B are *IP addresses*, not hosts.

Sometimes people agree with me, sometimes they don't, and sometimes I agree with them. But I've yet to have someone claim to be arguing against me while proving my point.

Anyone else want to unconfused Ben? I obviously cannot.

Really nothing clever about this at all in application or practicality. host> cat /etc/services | grep nntp nntp 119/tcp readnews untp # USENET News Transfer Protocol host1> cat /etc/hosts | grep news 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.100 clue-store 192.168.0.100 news-out 192.168.0.101 news-in If this didn't work, you'd suppose that virtual machines and IP aliasing wouldn't work either. Unless routes facing the world on the device are "tweaked", this should work fine and be reliable (if implemented cluefully). Am I not getting it? Best, -M< -- Martin Hannigan martin@theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079 Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants -- William Pitcock SystemInPlace - Simple Hosting Solutions 1-866-519-6149