On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, John BORIS wrote: > The only thing between the servers I am testing is the electronics of > the switch. they attach to the same switch.
Ok, I'm not a network engineer (INANE? Hoo, boy!) so someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I keep seeing references to ports on the switch. The ports on the switch have pretty much nothing to do with IP traffic unless the switch is layer 3, in which case it's more than a switch. :) A switch is layer 2, so it's only dealing with ethernet (MAC addresses and ARP tables, not IP addresses and routing tables). If the web server machine and your client machine are on two different subnets, then the network traffic is going to leave the switch and go to a router somewhere regardless of whether the two machines are plugged into switch ports that are next to each other. Now, if the two machines are on the *same* IP subnet, they would not be dealing with routing at all, and if the switch were smart enough, it would pass the packets to the correct MAC address and not bother sending the packets upstream anywhere. I may have missed the part where you mentioned what the IP network addressing scheme is at your place. -Adam (a different one ;) ) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
