two interfaces one subnet

Mon May 11 23:47:50 UTC 2009

> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 18:29:08 -0500
> From: Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> 
> Once upon a time, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> said:
> > > From: Chris Meidinger <cmeidinger at sendmail.com>
> > > For example, eth0 is 10.0.0.1/24 and eth1 is 10.0.0.2/24, nothing like  
> > > bonding going on. The customers usually have the idea of running one  
> > > interface for administration and another for production (which is a  
> > > _good_ idea) but they want to do it in the same subnet (not such a  
> > > good idea...)
> > 
> > This will not work right. One interface can be 10.0.0.1/24, but any
> > added interfaces would need to be /32 (10.0.0.2/32).
> 
> I don't know which OS(es) you are using, but that's not true in Linux.
> I see this all the time at home; if I plug my notebook into the wired
> LAN and still have the wireless enabled, both will get an IP (in the
> same subnet) from DHCP.  The wired link is the preferred default route
> by default, but you can easily set up routes for some networks via the
> wireless link.
> 
> You can also set up multipath routing to send packets out both links.  I
> think you can also use IP policy routing to control the choice of
> outbound interface by rule (e.g. based on source address).

This is true if you are using the WPA supplicant. It does a bit of
magic. (You can do the magic by hand without the supplicant, but it is a
pain or was the last time I tried.) 
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