On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:55 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip]
> > - I have two network /27 network blocks that are NOT contiguous - I > > use one for each box > > > > I'm not a networking expert, but this part seems wrong to me. I don't > think you're supposed to have different subnet addresses on the same > broadcast domain. If they both had the same subnet address, they would > then talk to each other over the switch and not touch the router. Why do you think this, reason I ask is I had a rather long discussion with a work college about this and I am wondering were this thinking comes from. > > Another option is to change the subnet mask so that the mask then allows careful you might loose connectivity with the router. > both computers to appear to be on the same subnet. This will have the > side effect of making other computers that happen to fall within that > same subnet inaccessible, since the networking layer will think those > computers are on the same subnet and not attempt to go through the > router, even though they aren't, and going through the router is required. > > I hope this makes sense. > > -- Kevin > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1273119072.31600.8.ca...@alex-mini.samad.com.au