Then whats the alternative, it just works out of thin air? Now i'm really
curious to find out how this is being done, although I have seen it done on
my own systems in the past, just not by me, so i'm intrigued to find out how
this is being accomplished. -- Jonathan
--
Jonathan M. Slivko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Blinx Networks
http://www.blinx.net/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Ames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Chris Dillon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment...
> Not really. The private IP space probably never leaves that LAN segment so
> the source IP would get set properly and the default route is irrelevent.
> Whenever
> he communicated with a block that is not diretly attached then the code
has
> to
> choose a source address and then send the packet to the next hop (usually
> the
> default route unless you have a dynamic protocol daemon (routed/gated/etc)
> running. As long as your just communicating to directly attached subnets
> everything
> will work peachy regardless of public/private/quantity/netmask.
>
> -Steve
>
> > Yes, but what that snippet showed from ifconfig showed 2 networks, 2
from
> > public IP space and 1 from private IP space, and since it's working the
> > networking code must know/care about something that it's being fed. --
> > Jonathan
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan M. Slivko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Blinx Networks
> > http://www.blinx.net/
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven Ames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Chris Dillon"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment...
> >
> >
> > > > Yes, but, I think the issue with the 2 IP classes working is because
> one
> > > is
> > > > not routable, and therefore it's not a real
> > > > IP address, and the router knows this, hence it's not reacting to
it
> by
> > > > stopping to work. As long as you use virtual
> > > > ip's (192.168.*.*) then there should be no reason why it wouldn't
> work.
> > > > However, if your talking about a routable
> > > > IP address, then you might have a problem, as there is a difference
> > > between
> > > > a virtual IP address and a real (routable)
> > > > IP address. Just my 0.02 cents. -- Jonathan
> > >
> > > I don't think the networking code knows/cares if something is private
or
> > > public IP space. I might be off here but I think the real problem with
> > > two seperate networks on one card (or even on two cards) would be
> > > the default route (can't have two right?) and which IP address gets
> > > used as the 'source IP' on packets leaving the system.
> > >
> > > -Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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