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RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

"Christian Huitema" <huitema@windows.microsoft.com> Fri, 28 March 2003 01:50 UTC

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 > > You are mixing cause and effect. In IPv4 the vast majority of nodes
> > are limited to a single address at a time.
> 
> Well, I don't know about windows boxes, but real operating systems
have
> supported virtual hosting in IPv4 for many years.  Having multiple
> addresses on a node, even a node with a single network interface, is
> nothing new.

My Windows-XP laptop currently has 14 IPv6 addresses, and 2 IPv4
addresses. The sky is not falling.

-- Christian Huitema

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