[OLSR-users] Re: [olsr-dev] olsrd on multiple interfaces

[Amit Kucheria]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 12:56, Pawel Foremski wrote:
> On Sunday 26 of September 2004 19:53, Andreas Tønnesen wrote:
> > The concept of IP routing is based on the fact that one has an unique
> > outgouing interface for a given IP address. If you set up multiple
> > interfaces and add the same route through these this would mess up the
> > whole IP routing basics. If i set up a box with two interfaces eth0 and
> > eth1 and add the route 192.168.10/24 to both of them - then chances are
> > that all traffic destined for that network will end up being routed
> > trough the interface with the first entry in the routing table. This is
> > IMO not because the routing mechanism lacks some feautre - but because
> > the whole setup is bad.
> 
> Well, I know that normally each interface should have different IP address, 
> but as I said sometimes it's useful to use only one IP address for one 
> machine - for example just for easiness and simplicity :).
> 

I have only superficial knowledge of VLANs, but I wonder why you want
the same IP address on all interfaces on a node? Maybe a picture would
help.

Regards,
Amit

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