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From: Henry Whincup <henry@visint.co.uk>
To: Phil Allsopp <phil@virtek.com>
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Subject: Re: twin network cards in one PC
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If you put the second interface up with a netmask of 0xffffffff (all ones)
you will be able to use it fine assumming that both cards go onto the same
physical and logical network... then again if this is the case why not
just use an alias on one card?

Henry

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Phil Allsopp wrote:

> When I put two network cards in one Pc and both cards are on the same
> subnet ie. 194.159.112.3 and 
> 194.159.112.4
> 
> I can not ping one of the cards wheras if I have one of the cards set to
> 192.168.1.1
> 
> I can ping them both.
> 
> Why is this ?
> 
> Phil.
> 
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