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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:30:44 -0400
From:      "Abel Alejandro" <aalejandro@icepr.com>
To:        "Daniel Schrock" <dschrock@speakeasy.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cant get out with two interfaces.
Message-ID:  <00b801c2dc3b$39e511d0$0ea00cc4@abel>
References:  <b3dav3$27h1$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3E5A6EA3.6030502@speakeasy.net>

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It worked with a netmask of 255.255.255.0

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Schrock" <dschrock@speakeasy.net>
To: "Abel Alejandro" <aalejandro@icepr.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: cant get out with two interfaces.


> Abel Alejandro wrote:
> > Hello, I have two interfaces. The rl0 is for monitoring purposes and
fxp0 is
> > for normal internet access.
> > rl0 is attached to a catalyst port using SPAN, meaning all the traffic
going
> > to the internet gets mirrored to
> > this port. fxp0 is on the same catalyst.
> >
> > If I shutdown rl0 then I can access fxp0 from the outside, but if I
ifconfig
> > rl0 up then
> > I am just allowed to access fxp0 within machines in the 196.12.X.0
network.
> >
> > rl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xa0000fc broadcast 255.255.255.3
> >         inet6 fe80::2e0:7dff:fed0:fdf4%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> >         ether 00:e0:7d:d0:fd:f4
> >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> >         status: active
>
> if this is just for monitoring with SPAN, you shouldn't give it an
> address at all.  just bring it up.
>
> i also suggest locking your interfaces and switch ports to their
> respective speed and duplex.
> you will see improvements in performance.
>
>
> .daniel.schrock,ccna
>
>


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