From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 10:57:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA27960 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from uswat.advtech.uswest.com (uswat.advtech.uswest.com [130.13.16.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA27955 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:57:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com ([151.116.23.138]) by uswat.advtech.uswest.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA06357; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 11:57:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id MAA03547; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:04:46 -0700 (MST) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA13436; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:56:45 -0600 Received: from kermit.acs.uswest.com by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA04932; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:56:37 -0600 From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Received: by kermit.acs.uswest.com (5.x/SPARCbook_POP1.1) id AA00886; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:56:37 -0600 Message-Id: <9601081856.AA00886@kermit.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Re: network setup question To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:56:36 -0600 (CST) Cc: deasey@server1.netpath.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601080713.RAA01405@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 8, 96 05:43:26 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Michael Smith said: > > 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... Perhaps the cisco has sub-interfaces running so the 206 net does exist. Then it could proxy arp to itself to get the route to go where it was supposed to. The only way to legitimately do it is to use sub-interfaces on the cisco. I don't suppose FreeBSD does that (ie 2 or more ip addresses on the same ethernet port). Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com Flying is a nack... the trick is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss..." - Douglas Adams