From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 7 23:29:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA18988 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 23:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18976 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 23:28:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA01405; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:43:27 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601080713.RAA01405@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: network setup question To: deasey@server1.netpath.net (Geoffrey Deasey) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:43:26 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Geoffrey Deasey" at Jan 8, 96 00:36:45 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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... -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[