Yes, but what that snippet showed from ifconfig showed 2 networks, 2 from
public IP space and 1 from private IP space, and since it's working the
networking code must know/care about something that it's being fed. --
Jonathan
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Jonathan M. Slivko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Blinx Networks
http://www.blinx.net/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Ames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Chris Dillon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment...
> > Yes, but, I think the issue with the 2 IP classes working is because one
> is
> > not routable, and therefore it's not a real
> > IP address, and the router knows this, hence it's not reacting to it by
> > stopping to work. As long as you use virtual
> > ip's (192.168.*.*) then there should be no reason why it wouldn't work.
> > However, if your talking about a routable
> > IP address, then you might have a problem, as there is a difference
> between
> > a virtual IP address and a real (routable)
> > IP address. Just my 0.02 cents. -- Jonathan
>
> I don't think the networking code knows/cares if something is private or
> public IP space. I might be off here but I think the real problem with
> two seperate networks on one card (or even on two cards) would be
> the default route (can't have two right?) and which IP address gets
> used as the 'source IP' on packets leaving the system.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
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