Re: [v6ops] PI [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]

[Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]>]

On 23/06/2014 16:29, Ted Lemon wrote:
> It's certainly possible, but you will never see an IPv4 host do it
> automatically.  It has to be configured manually, and rarely makes much
> sense other than for servers that simply need an additional public
> identifier, or routers that need to do network address translation and
> hence need an IP address on both the public and private subnets.

...or any of the situations where it might make sense in the same way that
it might make sense for ipv6, which is why all major operating systems have
GUI access to make it easy to add secondary ipv4 addresses on any
interface.  Secondary ipv4 addresses are completely mainstream, even if we
all used them before they were cool.

Nick