Sorry Folks,
I typed it by hand  output of the commands, duh?! Mistyped IP one ne2 in my
e-mail.Accept my appologies..
Okay correction
IP for ne2 192.168.0.4
IP for ne3 192.168.0.5
It's going to be a GATEWAY, but for simplicity let's look at it as a regular
workstation with 2 NIC's
Connected to a switch. While ne2 is working, and ne3 is not.
Sorry for my mistype.
Thanks,
So Suggestions anyone?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Bruckman" <fb@enteract.com>
To: "Unix Wizard" <mertis@ameritech.net>
Cc: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>; <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: network interfaces


> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Unix Wizard wrote:
>
> > Hmmm... That's very interesting.
> > ifacofig -a shows
> >
> > ne2: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
> >         address: 00:c0:f0:33:7e:fd
> >         media: Ethernet 10baseT
> >         inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> >
> >
> > ne3: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
> >         address: 00:c0:f0:33:70:f8
> >         media: Ethernet 10baseT
> >         inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>
> You can't have two interfaces with the same address! In fact, you
> can't even have two interfaces on the same machine on the same
> network. How would it know which interface to send a packet out on?
>
> It's a bug that you were even be able to do that!
>
> Maybe if you tell us exactly what you're trying to accomplish (dhcp
> client and gateway for a cable modem?), folks here could help you
> design a network that makes sense.
>
> > But netstat -rn SHOWS:
> >
> > Routing tables:
> >
> > Internet:
> > Destination            Gateway        Flags        Refs        Use
> > Mtu        Interface
> > 127                        127.0.0.1     UGRS        0             0
> > 33228        lo0
> > 127.0.0.1               127.0.0.1        UH          1             36
> > 33228        lo0
> > 192.168                  link#1            UC           0              0
> > 1500        ne2
> >
> > Looks like ne3 is missing from routing table, what could be a reason?
Does
> > anyone have any Idea, why ne3 is not working and why ne3 is not in
routing
> > table?
>
>
> Frederick
>