multiple interfaces with same IP address

[Sourav Sen <sourav@csa.iisc.ernet.in>]

Hi,
	I know that this is perhaps not the right forum for discussing
this question, but sometime back there was a thread that discussed if
multiple NIC s can have same IP address,  now I am faced with a similar
situation, and NOT getting answer anywhere, so I'm  a bit
desperate and hence posting it here.

	I have a D-Link 1016 100 Mb/s Ethernet switch in which there is a
facility called "Trunking" by which 4 "physical Links" can be combined in
a single "logical link" which gets all the bandwidth of the all 4 physical
links (according to User's Guide it is 800 Mb/s full duplex ).
Now I have configured the switch to have 1 trunking port (4 physical
ports). 

	My server has 4 NICs fitted. Each connected to the 4 physical
ports of the trunk.  When I assign different IP addresses
to the NICs I could only ping  one address from other machines (the one
fitted to the lowest number physical port in the switch). 

	The doubt is, shall I have to assign same Ip addresses to all the
four NIC's? Can that create any disturbance to the other parts of the
network? 

	Any help will be greatly appreciated. If anyone could point to
any other forum where I may post the doubt, that would also be of great
help.

with regards
sourav

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