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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:07:18AM -0600, Bob wrote:
> 
> All you are missing is the fact FreeBSD cannot handle
> two NICs the same subnet. OpenBSD does, NetBSD does and Linux does.

Wrong.  As already stated, make the netmask on the second one /32.

Re freevrrpd, so far as I know it's intended for the case of two machines
where one backs up the other, not two interfaces on one machine taking
over for each other.

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