Subject: Re: routing
To: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
From: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/1997 18:49:21
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:

# > 	I'm confused.  Why would this change just because you have more
# > than one interface with the same IP address?  If you tell it to go out a
# > particular interface, which the -interface flag is documented to do, then
# > who cares what the address of that function is, as long as the packet goes
# > out it?
# 
# I think the earlier discussion of how the interface command worked was
# you gave it the IP address for an interface. If you have multiple
# interfaces w/ the same address, you've not achieved your goal of sending
# the route via a particular interface. 

	*self LART*

	Upon closer inspection of the manpage, I see that now.  It seems
that -interface is a little of a misnomer, since you're not specifying the
interface name, but the interface IP address assuming only one interface
has the IP address you're using.

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