[ILUG] networking query

[John P. Looney (Kate)]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 02:24:58PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> ok, here's a tale of two networks or possibly four or maybe just one;
> two clued geeks; and one disagreement.  in the end paul will win because
> for reasons of correctness and aesthetics he's completely correct,
> but i just want to clear something up.
> 
> let's say we have a public network (192.168.7.0/24) and a private network
> (192.168.7.0/24) (that's not a typo) and a gateway (Moo) between the
> networks with eth0 being on the 192.168.7.0/25 network (connected to
> the public network) and eth1 192.168.7.128/25 network (connected to the
> private network).

 Not being a networking expert...what does this mean ?

 You have two networks, both with the same address range. You have a
gateway that's told "only see upper /25 on that network, and lower /25 on
the other" ?

 Wouldn't that mean that if you tryed to get from one to the other, it'd
just try and connect to the local equivelant IP ?

Kate

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