Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-21 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Stefan Janecek wrote: uh,uh. things start getting complicated, especially because i missed the beginning of the thread. from what i can figure out, your configuration is the following: GOOFY (192.168.1.1)eth0 eth1(192.168.2.1)

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-17 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Robert wrote: If your problem is that name service isn't working (despite the hosts file), it could be that Goofy is trying to find mini and mickey on the internet, where they are not visible. I suggest not using a valid internet domain. I'd suggest orion.home or something more creative.

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, robert_wilhelm_land spoke on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:31:16PM +0100: What does bind for domain name resolution mean? Does the mashine want to contact a internet nameserver? yes, that's exactly what it means. Surprising that today after boot-up GOOFY _can_ ping

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-16 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Robert Guthrie wrote: If you could give an example (including ascii diagrams) of what you're trying to accomplish, and and explanation of what advantage you hope to get from that setup, maybe we can get closer to understanding what you really want to do. I don't think I'm really qualified to

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 07:41, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: MICKEY can ping GOOFY because of using the local C:\windows\hosts MINI can ping GOOFY because of using the local /etc/hosts But GOOFY cannot ping MICKEY or MINI by name although GOOFY's /etc/hosts containes: #file /etc/hosts

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-16 Thread Michael Epting
This advice applies to /etc/host.conf, not resolve.conf. On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:42:34AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: ... Something else to look at first is your /etc/resolve.conf*. It should contain a line like order hosts,bind, which tells it to look first in /etc/hosts, and then go

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Robert Guthrie spoke on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:29:24PM -0600: On Thursday 09 November 2000 12:05, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Robert Guthrie wrote: Now, I'm not quite sure what your setup is here, so let see if your setup is the same as mine... 1 linux

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Stefan Janecek wrote: Mostly, I just share home out so that I have the same www bookmarks, same mail folders, and same custom scripts (under ~/bin) available to me. There are lots of issues when you do this kind of thing, though (you have to make sure your /etc/group and /etc/passwd

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Robert Guthrie wrote: Okay, this I know about: On an ethernet network every packet of information that is transmitted by a computer is visible to all NICs on the network. For a NIC to actually accept a packet for it's machine, the packet must be addressed to that NIC's MAC address (the

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 10 November 2000 08:27, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Robert Guthrie wrote: ... An analogy that illustrated a wrong concept... Exactly what I assumed. ... and another bad analogy illustrating what really does happen on a single network (no gateway involved). I'm not to sure if this

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 10 November 2000 14:48, Robert Guthrie wrote: As you may have figured out, having 2 NICs on the same subnet would not do anything for you. The computer with 2 NICs would either recieve duplicate packets, and have to do double the work (forwarding duplicate packets), or it would have

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 23:21, John wrote: As far as i know you will have to use 2 subnets and if you want the 192.168.0.xxx range to be able to talk to the 192.168.1.xxx range you will need to do ipforwarding between the 2. I agree with this assessment. robert_wilhelm_land wrote:

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
John wrote: Ok ill have a go, I think its something like this :) ? for each IP number bound to each NIC a route is set up in the routing table to tell the OS what to do with specific IP numbers ie if NIC1=192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 and NIC2=192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 then routes

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Robert Guthrie wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2000 23:21, John wrote: As far as i know you will have to use 2 subnets and if you want the 192.168.0.xxx range to be able to talk to the 192.168.1.xxx range you will need to do ipforwarding between the 2. I agree with this assessment.

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 09 November 2000 12:05, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Robert Guthrie wrote: Now, I'm not quite sure what your setup is here, so let see if your setup is the same as mine... 1 linux box, serving NFS and SMB to 2 desktops that dual-boot linux and windows 98. Under linux, I

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 09 November 2000 13:06, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Does ipfowarding relate on something special compiled into the kernel or do I need a certain package? Yes and Yes. Read the howto documents on IP-Masquerading and IP-Chains. Then re-read them, then meditate and pray for

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-08 Thread John
Ok ill have a go, I think its something like this :) ? for each IP number bound to each NIC a route is set up in the routing table to tell the OS what to do with specific IP numbers ie if NIC1=192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 and NIC2=192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 then routes would be set up for each

subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Would someone kindly help me in understanding why I cannot configure two ethernet cards using the same subnet but different IP's on one mashine? In this case I would like to setup a linux server for a smb-win32 and a nfs-nfs connection (in all 3 mashines) Any short comment is appreciated Robert