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Re: detecting multihomed host
From: "Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:47:36 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Marcin Antkiewicz wrote:
it depends. If your firewall is really just a bridge, the first router will see one MAC address in traffic for all of the 20 IPs. There are other
One MAC address wouldn't really be "multi-homed," it'd be lots of "virtual interfaces." That's different from muti-homed in my book. Physical multi-homing requires seperate physical interfaces. I'd call it multiple virtual interfaces if it all came from one NIC (and multi-homed normally indicates the system is connected to more than one network- hence it's "home" isn't just one subnet. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions paul () compuwar net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." http://www.fluiditgroup.com/blog/pdr/ Art: http://PaulDRobertson.imagekind.com/ _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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