Subject: Re: questions with route
To: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/1998 04:34:31
How would you expect this to work?  You've explicitly told the 
machine "to get from here to address q.r.s.27, send packets
out to q.r.s.202"

Basically, your set-up cannot work.  You can't have both of
your interfaces set up for the same Class C network and expect 
it to figure out which host(s) are on which side.  You need to
get a _separate_ address space for the second interface. 

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, nm wrote:

> I run 1.3.2 on a DEC Alpha
> 
> I have both a de0 and a de1.
> on the de0 side q.r.s.27 is a host
> on the de1 side the rest of the q.r.s class c sits.
> 
> My question is should the following work?
> 
> root@anomoly:~$ ifconfig de0 q.r.s.202 255.255.255.0
> root@anomoly:~$ route add -host q.r.s.27 q.r.s.202
> add host q.r.s.27: gateway q.r.s.202
> root@anomoly:~$ ping q.r.s.27
> PING q.r.s.27 (q.r.s.27): 48 data bytes
> ^C
> ----q.r.s.27 PING Statistics----
> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> Should I ping be working or not?
> Did I screw up the route?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 

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