J.C.,

Servers have two network cards on the same subnet all the time. Doing this on 
a workstation running (essentially) a server OS should not be an issue.

I have narrowed the problem down to something in my routing tables. I took a 
look at it when one NIC was enabled and then again when the second NIC was 
enabled and the routing table was screwed up. I did a 'route add default gw 
192.168.0.1' and this fixed part of the problem. I can now get to 192.168.0.1 
as well as get out on to the Internet, but I am still experiencing some 
packet loss when hitting the Internet. Need to tweak it out a little more but 
I am not having any luck finding any relevent info :(

-Chris


On Saturday 08 December 2001 21:54, you wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Why two NIC's in your LMDK workstation, I mean, what is the purpose for
> this setup? If you really need two network interfaces in one workstation,
> which I assume is only connected to the LAN and using NAT (or some other
> means of IP masq) to get out on the Internet through your gateway/firewall
> machine, you might need to set the second card up on a different subnet.
> Check your mask too......
>
> j. c. woods,
> UNIX SA
>
> At 08:57 PM 12/8/2001 -0800, Chris Spencer wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I hope someone can shed some light on to this because I'm at a loss.
> >
> >I have a small LAN going on at home: a Debian box acting as a firewall
> >(external interface gets its IP address from DHCP and the internal address
> > is 192.168.0.1); a Linux/Windows box that has no problems (only has one
> > NIC in it); and then my workstation. My workstation is a Linux Mandrake
> > 8.1 box with two NICs in it. The IP addresses assigned to the NICs are
> > 192.168.0.10 (eth0) and 192.168.0.11 (eth1). Class C mask.
> >
> >This is the problem: when I have both NICs enabled network access is a
> > total joke. I can get around the internal subnet just fine, but the
> > firewall laughs at me when I try to get out to the Internet. Not only
> > that, my whole system slows down considerably when both NICs are enabled.
> > If I disable eth1 I can get out just fine and my workstation is much more
> > responsive.
> >
> >I don't think this is a problem with the firewall because I am letting
> >everything on 192.168.0.0/24 out. But I am at a loss for words as to why
> > this happens when I have both network cards enabled.
> >
> >My modus operandi for this is to run VMware. I have set up a bridged
> >networking configuration where the virtual ethernet adapter is bridged to
> >eth1. OF COURSE, when I have both ethernet adapters enabled AND I start up
> > a virtual machine (with an IP address in the 192.168.0.50 range) it works
> > flawlessly. If eth1 is disabled, no networking in my virtual machine
> > (which makes sense...)
> >
> >There is something that I am not understanding here. Can someone please
> > shed some light on this before I go insane? Thank-you oh so much...
> >
> >-Chris
> >
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