Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:06:21 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@blinx.net> To: "Steven Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, "Chris Dillon" <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment... Message-ID: <003401c11616$d2a8e460$6401a8c0@equinox> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0107261528390.2406-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> <001701c11614$94114000$6401a8c0@equinox> <00fa01c11615$73cccb10$28d90c42@eservoffice.com>
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Yes, but what that snippet showed from ifconfig showed 2 networks, 2 from public IP space and 1 from private IP space, and since it's working the networking code must know/care about something that it's being fed. -- Jonathan -- Jonathan M. Slivko <jslivko@blinx.net> Blinx Networks http://www.blinx.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@blinx.net>; "Chris Dillon" <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>; <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:56 PM Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment... > > Yes, but, I think the issue with the 2 IP classes working is because one > is > > not routable, and therefore it's not a real > > IP address, and the router knows this, hence it's not reacting to it by > > stopping to work. As long as you use virtual > > ip's (192.168.*.*) then there should be no reason why it wouldn't work. > > However, if your talking about a routable > > IP address, then you might have a problem, as there is a difference > between > > a virtual IP address and a real (routable) > > IP address. Just my 0.02 cents. -- Jonathan > > I don't think the networking code knows/cares if something is private or > public IP space. I might be off here but I think the real problem with > two seperate networks on one card (or even on two cards) would be > the default route (can't have two right?) and which IP address gets > used as the 'source IP' on packets leaving the system. > > -Steve > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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