--Jauder
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Mark Spencer wrote:
> <LONG VERSION>
> Dunno if this can already be done, but this would be cool to do...
> Imagine if you will a real life scenerio I saw at a company today: Lots
> of machines on one IP subnet all trying to connect to a single server.
> The server is on a switch, and the switches are themselves hooked
> together. Wouldn't it be neat if:
>
> You could put say 5 ethernet cards in the server and put one ether card on
> each of the switches such that the server still has one IP address, but
> does ARP on all the interfaces in such a way that it can talk to each
> machine on the switch it belongs to...
>
> It is, in a sense, an extension of the bridging concept: broadcasts can
> go out on one interface (the switches will take care of the rest) but
> other packets should go out on the interface which is on the same switch
> as the arp that you want to get to...
> </LONG VERSION>
>
> <CONSISE>
> The idea would be that if multiple ethernet's share the same IP address
> that it properly arp's depending upon which interface an incoming request
> came on and sent arp requests on all interfaces with the shared IP.
> </CONSISE>
>
>
> Can it already be done? Is it worth doing?
>
> -Mark
>
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