Talk:Virtual IP address

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DVIPA

Sometimes referred to as VIPA - Virtual IP Address or DVIPA - Distributed VIPA

Multiple addresses

"A server IP address depends on the MAC address of the attached NIC, and only one logical IP address may be assigned per card.": wrong. A NIC can respond to any number of IPs. Remote hosts use to ARP protocol to determine which MAC use for any given IP. The opposite is true however: an IP address can be bound to a single MAC address only. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.7.230.226 (talk) 14:37, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. Ethernet adaptors can be bound to many mac addresses and IP addresses, at the same time (as far as a user is concerned)

Example: multiple ip addresses on 1 adaptor:

2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000

   link/ether e7:0f:22:57:03:5e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
   inet 192.168.255.248/28 brd 192.168.255.255 scope global eth0
      valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
   inet 172.16.30.1/23 scope global eth0

Examples of multiple MAC addresses on 1 adaptor, see VirtualBox

Aethalides (talk) 05:45, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Improvements

I've edited the page substantially, to

provide an actual definition, rather than defining it as one of the applications
deleting the incorrect statement referred to above
clarifying the text (hopefully)

Learjeff (talk) 20:17, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]