RE: multihomed host

["Ragib, Husain B (UMKC-Student)" <hbrk8d@umkc.edu>]

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Multi-Homed Hosts: These are any machines which has more than one
interface to connect to multiple networks. There are lots of
complication involved when thinking in terms of Multi-homed hosts, such
as routing tables entrys and local hosts IP address translations to name
a few.

An interesting point to note in Multi-Homed hosts is that it can be
visaulised as a normal computer with two NIC and two IP address of two
diffrent networks. Here it could just be sitting and recieving traffic
from both network and rarely if anytime be involved in routing
functions.(Or else it would become a Router..Though there is a
distinction between those two..]

hope this helps..

Husain


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-multi6@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-multi6@ops.ietf.org]On
Behalf Of Bill Sommerfeld
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:31 PM
To: Margaret Wasserman
Cc: Yoshihiro Ohba; ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com; multi6@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: multihomed host 


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> I don't know if there is an official definition, but I
> have usually heard the term "multihomed host" used to
> refer to multi-interface systems that do not function
> as routers (i.e. they don't forward packets).

For what it's worth, I've occasionally heard the term used in an
application-layer context to refer to hosts having multiple IP
addresses rather than/in addition to multiple interfaces. 

						- Bill