Hi Charles Hi all >NOTE: If your two networks will be talking to each other a lot, >you'd >be a lot better off having both networks hooked to the Dachstein box >(with a third ethernet card). Otherwise, you've either got to add a >static route to each system on the 192.168 network (so they can reach >the 10.10 network via the router at 192.168.1.40) or live with >packets >crossing the 192.168 network twice (once from the internal box to the >Dachstein default gateway, and again from the Dachstein box to the >router at 192.168.1.40...this could also cause some application >problems, depending on the IP stack you're running on your internal >clients).
This is not correct. I'll explain it. We have the following scenario: There are two routers on the same segment, lets call them R1 and R2. R1 is the default gateway for the clients on N1. and R1 knows about R2 and the network behind R2 (eth1_ROUTES). We have two networks N1 and N2 while N2 is connected to N1 via R2. This looks like this: R1 <--> N1 <--> R2 <--> N2 ( Charles recommends: R1 <--> N1 <--> N2 ) Ok, so far so good. Now a client on N1 wants to talk to a client on N2. The client on N1 sends his packet to R1. R1 checks his routing table and see that N2 is attached to the same interface as N1. The router then sends an ICMP REDIRECT to the client. The client updates his routing table dynamically. This works with nearly every router and every client. I have tested it with Dachstein: it works. Conclusion: Packets from/to N1<-->N2 DON'T go through R1. Clients on N1 talk DIRECTLY to R2. Hope this helps. Sandro Minola ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
