mm06@GTE.COM (Michael Murphy) (09/27/89)
We will soon have to change the IP address of every device on our local area network. Yes, I know this is stupid. We anticipate that not everyone will be able to do the conversion at the same time, and that the machines that are not switched over won't be able to communicate with those that have been. I would be grateful to learn if there were a way to avoid this problem. I do know that with BSD unix it is possible to set up a zero-length route to the "different" network on the same interface, which takes care of this type of host. There are other kinds of machines, e.g. terminal servers, which don't know about this trick. I suppose what we need to have in this situation is a "gateway" to forward packets from one network on the same interface to the different network. Alternatively, we need to know if it is possible for a BSD unix host to have two different IP addresses associated with the same network interface. Thanks. -- mike murphy mm06@gte.com {harvard,vaxine}!bunny!mm06 gte labs, waltham, ma