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[Oliver Tappe <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-07-11 at 17:14:23 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Jérôme Duval <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Waldemar Kornewald a écrit :
> > > Can a net_device have multiple net_interfaces for the same
> > > domain/family? For instance, my ethernet card could have
> > > 192.168.0.1
> > > and 62.123.12.11 at the same time. That's important for IPv6 and I
> > > didn't find this in the source.
> > That's even important for IPv4 alone, you could have multiple IPs on
> > one
> > device.
> 
> You could, yes, certainly, but why would one want to do this?
> AFAICT at least BONE does not support this. It's still early in the
> game, though, so if you can give me good reasons, I'm willing to
> implement it.

For me personally the most dominant reason to have IP aliasing is that it 
allows to configure a freshly bought router or wlan-access-point that comes 
with a fixed IP address in a foreign network without having to take down my 
IP connections.

But that's just me being lazy... >;o)

cheers,
        Oliver