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 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_

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

2000-11-16 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

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/hos

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

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 h

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

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_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/pass

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... > > >

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 understa

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. > > > > Und

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

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 > > t

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

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 su

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