From: Mark Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26 Jul 1999 11:35:29 -0400>>>>> "Kaa" == [ Kaa ] <Kaa> writes: Kaa> I have two machines plugged into a cable modem. Both have IP Kaa> addresses provided by the ISP. One is 24.6.xxx.xxx, and the Kaa> other is 24.5.xxx.xxx. [...] However the ISP says that the Kaa> netmask for these addresses should be 255.255.255.0 [...] Kaa> So, my question is: can I simply set the netmask to 255.0.0.0 Kaa> on both of them and put appropriate entries into the Kaa> /etc/hosts file? Is this likely to break anything? A better solution would probably be to leave the netmask as it is, but set up a route on each machine telling it how to reach the other machine, something like route add -host other_machines_name gw this_machines_name on each machine should work. Add this to /etc/init.d/network, or wherever you keep that stuff.
Wouldn't this set up a loop? Machine A sends a packet to machine B. Looks into the routing table, finds that the gateway is machine A. Send the packet to itself, repeat until something breaks.
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