Re: two interfaces one subnet

[Charles Wyble <charles () thewybles com>]

What does two interfaces in one subnet mean?

Two NICs? Or virtual interfaces?



Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Chris Meidinger wrote:
>
> > I've been looking through RFC's trying to find a clear statement that 
> > having two interfaces in the same subnet does not work, but can't find 
> > it that statement anywhere.
>
> I don't know if it still works, but it did in Linux little over 10 years 
> back. Proxy-arp:ed all the IPs in the /27 in the /24 and everything was 
> fine (legacy reasons plus radiolink which I didn't want to run a lot of 
> broadcasts over). There are "legitimate" cases where you might want to 
> do this.