Re: [coLinux-devel] networking question

[Dan A. <da...@gm...>]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:03:09PM +1000, Ian Latter wrote:

> Is it possible to configure the TAP interface to be on the same
> network as the ethernet interface?  I didn't get very far doing
> this (kepy coming up with duplicate IP errors, when there
> wasn't another host using that address prior to TAP 
> configuration).

AFAIK what you are talking about is called Bridged Ethernet. It 
is it is done by activating the promiscuous mode of one Ethernet 
card and let it recieve packets for two or MAC addresses. Thus,
the other operating systems "shares" the NIC with the host.

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Dan Aloni
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