[TriLUG] multiple IP from the same network card?

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Wed Jun 18 15:28:44 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 13:40, Jeffery Painter wrote:
> I believe this is called multi-homing

No, multi-homing is when you have more than one physical
connection and you route to them based on some sort of 
routing protocol (generally BGP).

Having multiple IP addresses on the same card is, iirc,
aliasing.

Cheers,
Tanner
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