Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:56:36 -0700 (PDT) From: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Routing nightmares. Message-ID: <m0rzqXk-0003wjC@TFS.COM> In-Reply-To: <199504140914.LAA17784@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 14, 95 11:14:02 am
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> > As Joe Greco wrote: > > > > daneel# ifconfig ed0 > > ed0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > inet 151.186.28.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 151.186.28.255 > > daneel# ifconfig ed1 > > ed1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > inet 151.186.20.196 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 151.186.255.255 > > I'm not an INET expert, but ``common wisdom'' says you will have to > use the same subnet mask throughout the whole net. > This is definitly the experience I have had...... it is UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY BROKEN!!!!! it may be that some of the NEWER revisions of the routing control protocols may fix this (MAYBE).. but I wouldn't count on it.. anyway teh problem is outside your little enclave and in the wider world.. (bad news I'm afraid.... (though you could see if you can broadcast proxy-arp messages for all your internal nodes and 'attract' all packets for them to your gateway :) julian
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