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Re: 2 NIC's on same network, possible?


From: Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:36:16 +0200

On 2003-07-29 David Gillett wrote:
Routing decisions are made by examining one possibility at a time;
once a match has been found, the rest of the routes need not be
examined.  So the presence of multiple candidate matches doesn't
interfere with the process at all.
[...]
The example of the default route is only the most common counter-
example which contradicts your assertion.  You most certainly CAN have
multiple routes "pointing towards the same network".

I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarifying.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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