Master and slave on same host

[Joseph L. Casale]

>If one view or the other communicates exclusively with other devices on
>the same link, you could probably get away with using an IPv6 link-local
>address, which is likely already present on your system (if you're
>running a modern OS), and is probably "invisible" to the other apps
>you're running on the box, and thus wouldn't require them to be
>reconfigured.

Ah. no luck. It is RHEL 6.1, but had ipv6 explicitly removed during deployment.
I take it its a pre-req to have different ip's, so I will work around this.

Thanks for the guidance,
jlc