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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Joseph Mack wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, tc lewis wrote:
>
> >
> > wow, ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up then the route did work. i even tried that
> > before. oh, i tried the ifconfig with a netmask. i guess it didn't like
> > that.
>
> well I'd never thought of that.
>
> What does having an IP=0 get you, that having a regular IP on the NIC
> doesn't get you.
nothing, really, except you save on ip space (as if internal ip space is
scarce). if all that that interface is doing is outgoing forwarded
packets from the director via the dr method, then i don't see why it would
need an ip address. i was more curious than anything else. i ended up
giving them ips anyway.
-tcl.
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