On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 08:29:42PM +0000, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi Denis, > > ok ..I hadnt read your email fully sorry about that... > > what are you trying to achieve here? > > you have a 172.16.0.249/30 address on em3 which includes > 172.16.0.248-127.16.0.251 > > and then you have a 172.16.0.254/24 which includes the entire range of > 172.16.0.0-172.16.0.255 > > I think you are making life tougher on your self and who ever has to > diagnose the system after you... > it is private IP space co can you not put them on different networks > and do meat and Potatoes Routing ? > > the other thing you need to consider is that you need to turn on proxy > arp (which can be very counter productive and cause other issues ) so > that your host responds to arp requests for > > 172.16.0.249 and 172.16.0.250 on em3 (assuming you want hosts on the > network attached to em3 to be able to talk the ips connected to em4) > > the other concern I would have is that you are trying to route traffic > to an ip that is a reserved ip 172.16.0.248 is the network address of > em4 according to your configuration... > > I hope this helps... >
Thank you, I will try to renumber, this sounds like the best idea :)