Boy it shure looks like folks need a lesson in basic networking. i cant
imagin the problems if some just happens to duplicate an IP addy of a
system down the pipe. Someone would be very upset when there machine
droped off the network. I know I would be extreemly ticked off.
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote:
> David Nordlund wrote:
> >
> > ...An alias IP? Sounds like that might do the trick. How does one create
> > an alias IP?
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Lisa Mountjoy wrote:
> > > John:
> > >
> > > I have the same setup as you, somewhat. I have a hub, 2 computers and a DSL
> > > modem. Computer A is my mandrake server, B is a win98 client, and the DSL
> > > modem connected to the hub. Computer A is setup with the static ip address i
> > > was assigned for my net connection, with an alias ip of 192.168.0.1. The win98
> > > client connects to the net through ip masquerading i set up on the linux
> > > server. So far everything runs smoothly...originally i had the win98 machine
> > > being the one directly connected to the net, but that was a pain in the neck.
> > >
> > > Lisa Mountjoy
>
> Is anybody listening?
>
> This is really bad, folks -- if I understand you correctly, you're
> (both) sending private IP packets onto the local subnet!
Bill Beauchemin
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