Douglas & others, dt> Now you will have three networks. ... ... You shouldn't have to add routes like this ...
Right oh. dt> change this to 172.23.5.1, and change heaviside's to 172.23.5.2 The revised configuration follows. Everything appears OK now. There is no hub consuming power and two cables rather than three. Thanks for the help, ... Peter E. ============================================ joule:~# cat /etc/hosts # /etc/hosts file 127.0.0.1 peasthope.yi.org joule localhost # Private LANs at home 172.23.4.2 curie 172.23.5.2 heaviside # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts joule:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). auto lo eth0 eth1 eth2 # The loopback network interface iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface iface eth0 inet dhcp # The interface to curie iface eth1 inet static address 172.23.4.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # The interface to heaviside iface eth2 inet static address 172.23.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 joule:~# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 172.23.5.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth2 172.23.4.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 24.108.32.0 * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 24.108.32.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ============================================ Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.yi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]