[geeks] What am I missing?

[Thomas Gallaway]

Jeff Cole wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:25:35AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
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>>Both your network interfaces are on the same subnet.  This will not work
>>as you expect.
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>>>  192.168.0.0          192.168.0.201         U        1    184  hme1
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>>The system routing table sees hme1 as the -only- path to 192.168.0.0/24.
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>Makes sense
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>>>I am unable to ping 192.168.0.200 from another box (192.168.0.202) or my
>>>router (192.168.0.1), however, when I snoop hme0, I see lots of ARP
>>>traffic, but, pings and connections always timeout.
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>>Right because the system is ignoring packets to that IP address on that
>>interface because it sees them as "martian" packets.  There's no way
>>that packets destined for that IP address can arrive on that port
>>because the other port is (according to the route table)  the only route
>>to that subnet, and the subnet is directly connected.
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>Ahh.
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>>Something that -might- work is setting the netmask for hme0 to ffffffff,
>>but I think I should ask why you'd want two ports on the same IP subnet.
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>Because it's just my home network and I don't have anything better to do
>with it. Oddly enough, it was working at some point in the recent past.
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>Could I add a route to 192.168.0.0 going out 192.168.0.200?
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>Jeff
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Like jonathan said try to make the netmask 255.255.255.255 on the second 
interface. It might work.

-- Thomas