"rasikasriniva...@gmail.com" <rasikasriniva...@gmail.com> writes:
> one way to get your head around this is - IP Addresses are associated > with the interface and not the computer. distinction may be subtle but > critical. Actually this is wrong for most Unix systems, which use the `weak end-system model' described in RFC1122. Weak end-systems accept IP packets sent to any of the host's addresses (and respond to ARP requests for any address) arriving on any of its interfaces, and might send a packet from any of the host's addresses out of any interface. It's best to think of the addresses as referring to the host, and not the interfaces. That doesn't mean that you can get away with a single address for the entire host, though: you need addresses which correspond to the networks you're attached to. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
