two interfaces one subnet

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Tue May 12 04:12:43 UTC 2009


On May 11, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net 
> > wrote:

>> Do you even read your own posts?  Specifically:
>>
>> On May 11, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Either way, if
>>> the packet *from* X was addressed *to* B but the response comes back
>>> from *A*, then host X is going to drop the packet as
>>> invalid/irrelevant/etc.
>>
>> The receiving host X does not care (or even know) if A and B are in  
>> the same
>> prefix.
>
>  Look again.  A and B are *IP addresses*, not hosts.

Sometimes people agree with me, sometimes they don't, and sometimes I  
agree with them.  But I've yet to have someone claim to be arguing  
against me while proving my point.

Anyone else want to unconfused Ben?  I obviously cannot.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick





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