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Date:      Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:59:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: arp errors on machines with two interfaces
Message-ID:  <199910100059.UAA75663@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199910091650.LAA08261@cs.rice.edu>
References:  <199910091650.LAA08261@cs.rice.edu>

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<<On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:50:51 -0500 (CDT), Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> said:

> Actually I am using different subnet addresses on the two interfaces. One is
> 128.42.3.77 and the other is 192.168.3.77. There are other machines in the dept
> running Solaris and other OS's that are connected in similar fashions.
> However, the Ethernet is switched and any broadcast by anyone is going to be
> seen by all interfaces connected to it.

Aha!  Then your switch is broken -- or it's an early generation of the
``vlan'' switches which really didn't support VLANs.

You're lucky you're not trying to do multicast over this mess...

-GAWollman

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