Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:53:47 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: root oh yeah <root@babel.serve.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: static route / interface question Message-ID: <20000619235347.B836@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20000619160730.A92657@babel.serve.com>; from root@babel.serve.com on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 04:07:30PM -0400 References: <20000616152855.A559@babel.serve.com> <20000616215435.E310@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <20000619160730.A92657@babel.serve.com>
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 04:07:30PM -0400, root oh yeah wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:54:35PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 03:28:55PM -0400, root oh yeah wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up what I think should be straightforward, but > > > I can't seem to get it to work. > > > > > > I have two ethernet cards, one connected to local network & my > > > internet gateway. I have another card connected to a seperate local > > > network (which a number of the same machines are connected to). > > > Each has its own ip. I need to enter the proper route command to > > > be able to access a particular machine only on the second local network, > > > through the second interface (xl0). > > > > What exactly are you trying to do here? If the machine is on the local > > network of one of the NICs, there is no special routing to be added. > > I mean, once you do your ifconfig(8)s look at, > > > > $ netstat -rn > > > > And the route would be in there. > > I'm sorry I wasn't clear -- basically, there is only a single local *IP* > network but there are two overlapping *ethernet* networks (by which I mean > that most of the machines have two ethernet cards). All requests > currently go out over my first interface card, but I need the request to the > local machine to go out over the other interface card as the machine is only > connected up to that ethernet network. > > Does that make sense? Not really. If you have only one logical IP network, there is no routing to be done. Your machines should be bridging, not routing. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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