[linux-help] Re: Can't set up network

[John Alexander <john.alexander@xxxxxxxx>]

Especially when your Lattisnet 5000 Ethernet Concentrator has a mac address
and keeps gobbling up one of the free mac address slots on the cable modem,
thereby only allowing two machines to get addresses.

ja

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Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:10 PM
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Subject: [linux-help] Re: Can't set up network


> > > It sounds like your Linux box has two addresses... the one from RR
> > > (24.x.x.x) and a private one on eth1 (192.x.x.x).  The reason the
other
> > > boxes cannot ping the 192.x.x.x address is b/c they're on the wrong
> > > "street"... or, in real-world terms, they're on a different physical
> > > network.
>
> The two networks can't co-exist. You must separate them by getting the
modem
> off of the hub. Then you have two separate networks. Your local network
> around the hub and the internet via the gateway machine.

Actually... they *can* coexist over the same physical network... it's just
that the "normal" and suggested way is to separate them as you describe.
Separating them provides for better security, as well as makes things easier
to set up =)


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