Re: Routing into overlapping subnets

2010-02-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.02.18 00:31, Christian Ullrich wrote: > * Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> On 2010.02.17 16:42, Christian Ullrich wrote: > >>> send the packet. Why doesn't the kernel look up an ARP table entry by >>> both IP address and interface? >> >> That's not how the protocols were designed, and thankfull

Re: Routing into overlapping subnets

2010-02-17 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.02.17 16:42, Christian Ullrich wrote: send the packet. Why doesn't the kernel look up an ARP table entry by both IP address and interface? That's not how the protocols were designed, and thankfully so. Imagine the potential for spoofing if this were allowed b

Re: Routing into overlapping subnets

2010-02-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.02.17 16:42, Christian Ullrich wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm having a routing problem I can't wrap my head around. Consider this > situation: I want to provide some common resources (printers etc.) to a > number of clients in separate networks. They each have their own > physical network, an