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Date:      Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:43:26 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        deasey@server1.netpath.net (Geoffrey Deasey)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: network setup question
Message-ID:  <199601080713.RAA01405@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960108002945.4548A-100000@server1.netpath.net> from "Geoffrey Deasey" at Jan 8, 96 00:36:45 am

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Geoffrey Deasey stands accused of saying:
> 
> I have 2 machines in a room connected to a cisco router
> ok now I add this FreeBSD machine, but its address is different
> server1 205.139.153.2   gateway 205.139.153.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 
> server2 205.139.153.3   gateway 205.139.153.254 netmask 255.255.255.0
> cisco   205.139.153.254
> new     206.27.32.1     gateway 205.139.153.254 netmask 255.255.255.0

This is stupid; the gateway isn't on the network.  For this to work, the
'new' machine's gateway must be on the 206.27.32.* network.

> I have done this exact same setup with linux without a 
> problem.  for now I have taken ad address from the 205.139.153
> block for this machine, but I would like to go to the new class c 
> block for this machine.

If this really worked under Linux then their routing is even more screwed
than I thought.  I can't believe it would have...

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