On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:10:01PM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote
> hi all,
>
Hello, Marc!
> we have an ascend server that serves a dial up customer sitting on
> 203.28.51.128.
>
> routing table on the ascend server:
>
> 203.28.51.128/27 203.28.51.128 wan12 rGT 120 2 6575 5169
> 203.28.51.128/32 203.28.51.128 wan12 rT 60 1 4150 5169
>
> they are given the 203.28.51.128/27 subnet from radius.
>
> on the customers end is a linux box acting as a router for their /27 subnet.
>
> ifconfig on the debian box shows:
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> RX packets:7607 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:7607 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:47:F3:9C
> inet addr:203.28.51.128 Bcast:203.28.51.159 Mask:255.255.255.224
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:85592 errors:0 dropped:23 overruns:0
> TX packets:6940 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0x240
>
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:203.28.51.128 P-t-P:203.63.219.10 Mask:255.255.255.224
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1524 Metric:1
> RX packets:10757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:10410 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
[snip]
Using the network address ([203.28.51.128]) as the interface
address isn't a good idea. It may be treated as special for all
sorts of reasons and you can't rely on it to behave like a
regular host IP, or even for different TCP/IP stacks to deal
with it consistently.
For example on my local LAN, with a network address of
192.168.113.0, all of my Debian boxes (running kernel
2.2.15) respond if I ping 192.168.113.0, but it would be equally
understandable if none of them did (as is the case if I run
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
). Change the interface address to (say) 203.28.51.129; it may
not fix your problem, but it removes the most obvious reason why
it may not work.
John P.
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