David Stevens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/29/2007 11:03:37 AM: > >> So, I am looking for technical reasons why this is permitted. > > Vlad, > Is there a technical reason to disallow it? Rather than > anticipate all the possible uses for a machine, it's, of course, > generally better to restrict only the things you know can't > work, and allow everything else. > > +-DLS
For v4, not really, but it really confuses some people (and thus causes me headaches ;-) For v6, there are plenty of operational reasons to not allow this. You really turn unicast into anycast when you do this and there are special rules to be followed. -vlad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
