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.
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TTFN,
patrick
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