From: Oisin Kim (kimo at domain cs.tcd.ie)
Date: Sat 11 Aug 2001 - 14:53:36 IST
Hi again,
first of all to Niall: thank you, thank you, thank you!! it worked perfect!
I'm sorry to bother you all again, but here goes...
I tried to read some books before I set up the network cards, so the setup I
had was very similar to that depicted by your solution (as shown in last
email Re: [ILUG] Creating a multihomed host.) , except that I was using one
set of network cards for a broadcast address and I had set different netmasks
for each set of cards. I thought this would help differentiate between each
network, is this right?
The output of ifconfig is shown below.
What I was wondering was, is it possible for a nic to be both a regular IP
address and a broadcast address at the same time?
the reason I ask is that I noticed when I run ifconfig it looks like eth0
represents both a regular inet address (134.226.36.241) and also a broadcast
address (134.226.255.255). This was set by default by the RHAT install.
[oisin at domain mcdonalds queue]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:03:42:45:7F
inet addr:134.226.36.241 Bcast:134.226.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:521656 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
TX packets:197892 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:AD:2F:E2
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x5400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:310632 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:310632 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Thanks for all your help on this,
Oisin
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