Re: Multihoming Issues

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Wed, 04 September 2002 02:08 UTC

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> However, in such a mode, the hostmaster
> would not have declared these two 'totally seperate'
> intrfaces to have the same name.

why not?  it's done all the time in v4, in order to distribute load
across several servers.