Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
This is a simle question That has generated a lot of well-meaning but very complicated replies. You can only have one default gateway. This is an easy thing to set up. If you need to define spcific routes, then its a bit more complicted. But not rocket science. One day someone will write a book abo

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yann GROSSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:56:42 -0500 > "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's your answer. Any machine with forwarding turned on will resend > > a packet that isn't destin for it. That's by design. > > It doesn't make much sense to me that

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: éé Yann GROSSEL ééé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:42:13 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Gateways are designed to forward packets from network to network. If a > >machine wants to send a packet to a remote network, it will send that > >packet to the gateway by put

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread éé Yann GROSSEL ééé
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:42:13 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Gateways are designed to forward packets from network to network. If a > >machine wants to send a packet to a remote network, it will send that > >packet to the gateway by putting the gateway interface MAC address in > >

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: Yann GROSSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:56:42 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's your answer. Any machine with forwarding turned on will resend > a packet that isn't destin for it. That's by design. > It doesn't make much sense to me that you'd have a l

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Yann GROSSEL
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:56:42 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's your answer. Any machine with forwarding turned on will resend > a packet that isn't destin for it. That's by design. > It doesn't make much sense to me that you'd have a lot of machines with > forwarding turned

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: Yann GROSSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, We have several FreeBSD 4.7 boxes that put automatically all their interfaces into promiscuous mode during the boot process. What should I do to prevent this from happening ? Our boxes are connected on a D-Link switch. We have noticed a very weird behav

promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Yann GROSSEL
Hi, We have several FreeBSD 4.7 boxes that put automatically all their interfaces into promiscuous mode during the boot process. What should I do to prevent this from happening ? Our boxes are connected on a D-Link switch. We have noticed a very weird behaviour from a few of these machines, I'll