So one can never have two seperate networks that each use some
random part of a class c?

At 04:34 AM 8/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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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