IP assignment for virtual webhosting

In message <04BCD7586FEDD3119C0B00A0C9E4605F6F99ED at uklozms02.Teleglobe.CA>, "Ha
llgren, Michael" writes:
>
>
>Robert Kiessling wrote:
>
>> Nurani Nimpuno writes:
>>  > We would
>>  > therefore like to request the community to consider making it
>>  > mandatory for NEW installations to use domain based web-hosting, with
>>  > the exception of a set of agreed applications needing IP based
>>  > web-hosting (eg. SSL).
>>
>> So you would require servers like www.siemens.de to share an IP
>> address with www.my-completely-unimportant-personal-site.de if there
>> is no SSL or similar use?

I think if you interpret this loosely as "Only one IP per interface"
you will get the right idea.

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