From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 27 02:31:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A726216A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:31:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.efacilitas.de (efacilitas.de [213.133.110.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE2743D1F for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:31:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.alpha-tierchen.de (port-212-202-169-228.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.169.228]) by mail.efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB16123960; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 03:30:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.local [127.0.0.1]) by mail.alpha-tierchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F187E6273; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 03:30:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.alpha-tierchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.efacilitas.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 44527-08; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 03:30:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from alpha (alpha.local [192.168.1.2]) by mail.alpha-tierchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF6A6272; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 03:30:53 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEvDtm5pZw==?= To: "'munn'" Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 03:31:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <41A7C9DE.1070302@umd.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-Index: AcTUGKGtNgAmQsZvRHCr+w9IrUxB9gADXBxw Message-Id: <20041127023053.8CF6A6272@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at alpha-tierchen.de cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Multiple Network Cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:31:13 -0000 Robert Munn wrote: > The first card has an address 192.168.123.99 (xl0). The second > card has the address 192.168.123.98 (fpx0). [It doesn't work. Why?] I guess that you configured these two NICs with the same subnet mask, in = this case 255.255.255.0. It won't work as long as you don't configure = this machine as a network bridge (see [1]). Another way would be to use = IPs of different subnets, e.g. 192.168.123.X and 192.168.124.X, both = with 255.255.255.0; but you might have to care for routing between these = subnets. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/de/books/handbook/network-bridging.html By the way, this topic doesn't belong to the -STABLE mailing list. Regards Bj=C3=B6rn