From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 17 21:03:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA13174 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 21:03:35 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA13168 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 21:03:34 -0700 Received: from tfs.com (mailhub.tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id LAA04611 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:56:36 -0700 Received: by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) Message-Id: From: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: Routing nightmares. To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504140914.LAA17784@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 14, 95 11:14:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 984 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > As Joe Greco wrote: > > > > daneel# ifconfig ed0 > > ed0: flags=8863 mtu 1500 > > inet 151.186.28.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 151.186.28.255 > > daneel# ifconfig ed1 > > ed1: flags=8863 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