can you assign same ip address to two interfaces
cisco if the interface type is point to point we don't need to assign ip address related to RFC 1812 2.2.7 section : Related to this if the interface type is P2P we can assign same ip address to two interfaces. Serial1/0 192.168.1.1 YES manual up up Serial1/1 192.168.1.1 YES manual up up Ok if i ping 192.168.1.2 where it will go ? lets explore it .. Basic diagram R2 (s1/0)-- --(s1/0) R3 -- LO 192.168.6.1/32 R1#show ip route 192.168.1.2 Routing entry for 192.168.1.0/30 Known via "connected", distance 0, metric 0 (connected, via interface) Routing Descriptor Blocks: * directly connected, via Serial1/0 Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1 directly connected, via Serial1/1 Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1 so basically load sharing :) further more , R1#show ip cef 192.168.6.1 192.168.6.1/32 nexthop 192.168.1.2 Serial1/0 nexthop 192.168.1.2 Serial1/1 if...