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

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Somehow I've never actually experienced that problem... Just lucky, I guess. 

:-)


On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:39:57PM -0500, John Alexander wrote:
> 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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> 
> > > > 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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