From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 1: 5:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5C037B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 01:05:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D17F43ED8 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 01:05:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 42502 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2003 09:05:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO adam.com.au) (202.6.151.70) by eden.adam.com.au with SMTP; 16 Jan 2003 09:05:16 -0000 Message-ID: <3E267629.2030201@adam.com.au> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:36:49 +1030 From: Brian Astill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020926 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stacey@vickiandstacey.com Cc: Nikolaj Farrell , FreeBSD Questions , wmoran@potentialtech.com Subject: Re: Problems w NIC References: <001701c2b987$9fdf72e0$0100a8c0@athlon> <000b01c2b98a$df9981c0$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042301568.51041.233.camel@localhost> <001201c2b98e$063311e0$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042303096.51041.237.camel@localhost> <000301c2b993$55e70610$0100a8c0@athlon> <20030111171152.GH25529@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <001b01c2b995$0dbf6d30$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042305860.51041.240.camel@localhost> <001801c2b999$95567000$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042310110.51041.250.camel@localhost> <002b01c2b9c3$56722e40$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042325630.51041.257.camel@localhost> <003701c2b9c4$db6e6950$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042328202.51041.268.camel@localhost> <00c301c2b9cd$71a44360$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042329896.51041.273.camel@localhost> <000a01c2b9cf$fb483f20$0100a8c0@athlon> <3E25F20A.2030009@adam.com.au> <1042674635.51041.412.camel@localhost> <3E261D65.8050801@adam.com.au> <1042696803.51041.416.camel@localhost> <3E265883.8050005@adam.com.au> <1042701186.51041.430.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stacey Roberts wrote: >Here you go.., You have given the same IP Addr / netmasks information to >both rl0 & rl1 - this is not right. > >In your earlier message, you mentioned that rl0 is connected to a cable >modem and rl1 is connected to a lan. rl0 should have a different IP >address.., indeed a different network altogether as against rl1. > >To make life easier, you should configure rl1 with another completely >different RFC1918 IP address. So if you're using 192.168.x.x for rl0, >use an IP addr from the 172.16.x.x or 10.x.x.x ranges for rl1. > >Your set up appears to be that of a gateway. If so, google for "dual >homed hosts" and have a read of what is required to set it all up. > Thanks heaps! Now I understand. It didn't _seem_ right to have two identical IPs, but I didn't know what else to do :-[ It will all work, now. -- Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message