From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 12:37:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CFA1520E for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id PAA03755; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:29:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906041929.PAA03755@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Question about arp entry in /var/log/messages In-Reply-To: <199906041703.KAA15511@cup44ux.cup.hp.com> from Ken Lui at "Jun 4, 99 10:03:22 am" To: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:29:44 -0400 (EDT) Cc: cjclark@home.com, klui@cup.hp.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Lui wrote, > >From cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com Fri Jun 4 07:57:41 PDT 1999 > > Note the loopback addresses for the machine's own interfaces. Also note > > the broadcast addresses... *shrug* dunno where yours are. > > I will try to dig up why the broadcast addresses aren't there. It's probably just that you had not tried to use them yet. I have Samba running and since that NetBIOS stuff is always shouting in broadcasts, mine are always in the table. > > Whoa. Did you just say ed1 and ed2 are on the same wire? You _will_ > > have trouble if two interfaces on one machine share a wire. There is > > no really good reason I am aware of to ever have that situation. > > I had posed this question towards the beginning of this thread. In > particular, I was wondering if I need to have different wires for > my 2 networks. The impression I got was a lot of people have my > current physical setup. But since you're saying you shouldn't have > the same wire going from ed1 and ed2 (in my case), and if I switch to > 10bT for my network rather than 10b2 (mostly), would I need 2 hubs? You lost me. > Crist, I'm curious about the physical layout of your network. Can > you give me a simplified view of it? Which one? The netstat -rn I showed you? It's nothing much; I just have a 192.168.0 net in my office (but I do admin the network for our building). I have a CAT5 cable coming out of my wall that is hooked into my PC at fxp0 (aaa.bbb.ccc.204) and the other end is the aaa.bbb.ccc/24 net. I have a second fxp1 NIC with BNC cable that goes around to whatever machines I have scavenged into my office at the time. It is a 192.168.0/24 net. My PC has NATd running and also does DNS for the 192.168.0 net. Want a picture? aaa.bbb.ccc/24 }__100BaseTX__|aaa.bbb.ccc.204|_[ My ]_ LAN } | fxp0 | [ PC ] | | 192.168.0/24}__10Base2__|192.168.0.1|__| LAN } | fxp1 | > Here is my current layout from > my old message in case you didn't catch it: > > [isdn] > |___10bT___[hub] ("wire 0") > |___10b2___[Mac]___10b2___[FreeBSD w/ 2 ethernet cards] > ("wire 1")-> | > |___10b2___[NeXT]___10b2___[NeXT] We seem to have different definitions of 'a wire.' Remember that Ethernet is a broadcast protocol. From what I see, this diagram only has _one_ wire. That is, a packet sent out by, say, a NeXT box, will be seen by _every_ other machine in the picture. When you have several cables connected into a hub, as far as I am concerned, they are all one 'wire' since each machine on each cable can talk to any other via Ethernet. > I was thinking of needing a setup like this: > > [isdn] > |___10bT___[hub] ("wire 0") > |___10b2___[FreeBSD ethernet card 1] (net 15--ed1--"wire 1") > [FreeBSD ethernet card 2] (net 10--ed2--"wire 2") > |___10b2___[Mac]___10b2___[NeXT]___10b2___[NeXT] I do not really understand this picture. First, your hub seems useless now. It's just converting from CAT5 to BNC? But more important, you do not seem to have any hosts on the 15-net. What is your motivation for doing this? (I'm too lazy to go back and dig out the old stuff. ;) You above mentioned moving to a new media, 10BaseT, but there is no such change in this picture. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message