Wonderful. :) Throw BGP or RIP in the mix and you've got yourself a regular soap opera.
Best Regards Nathan Eisenberg Sr. Systems Administrator Atlas Networks, LLC [email protected] http://support.atlasnetworks.us/portal -----Original Message----- From: Tim Nelson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] running pfsense on soekris net5501 ----- "Joseph Wagner" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can someone explain to me quickly why you can't use the same subnet on > > both sides of the pfsense box? I'm guessing it gets confused on where > > to route packets. > In a nutshell... <sarcasm> Hi I'm a router! I just got a packet destined for a remote host. I know that my next hop is 192.168.1.1. OK... lets look in my system routing table to see how to get a packet to 192.168.1.1... Network Mask Interface Metric 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 dc0 10 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 dc1 10 Uhhh... that's confusing. I have two routes to get to the same destination and they both have the same priority(metric value). GAH! I'll just drop the packet or hold onto it for a bit and not do anything since I don't know how to get the packet where it's going. </sarcasm> :-) --Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
