From owner-freebsd-net Sat Oct 9 17:59:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600AB14E75 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 17:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA75663; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:59:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:59:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199910100059.UAA75663@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mohit Aron Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arp errors on machines with two interfaces In-Reply-To: <199910091650.LAA08261@cs.rice.edu> References: <199910091650.LAA08261@cs.rice.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Actually I am using different subnet addresses on the two interfaces. One is > 128.42.3.77 and the other is 192.168.3.77. There are other machines in the dept > running Solaris and other OS's that are connected in similar fashions. > However, the Ethernet is switched and any broadcast by anyone is going to be > seen by all interfaces connected to it. Aha! Then your switch is broken -- or it's an early generation of the ``vlan'' switches which really didn't support VLANs. You're lucky you're not trying to do multicast over this mess... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message