Can you have many ip addresses assigned to a single network connection?. Where would someone use that?
2006-10-14 01:55:31 · 2 answers · asked by techzone12 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
A physical network connection can have 0 IP addresses or LOTS of IP addresses - there is no correlation between a network connection and how many IP addresses are assigned to it. On a VMWare server (or desktop computer), you could have dozens of IP addresses assigned to a single network connection - it's not uncommon at all.
2006-10-14 01:59:53 · answer #1 · answered by Marc K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have many external addresses mapped to a single internal address. This is used a lot with NAT. All the internal addresses that can't be routed to the internet hit the internal address and the router uses a pool of external addresses to route the internet request.
2006-10-14 08:59:59 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋