[ale] network question

[jonathan at xcorps.net (Jonathan Rickman)]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Wandered Inn wrote:

> Okay, so a couple of folks say this is possible.  Question is, I'm not
> sure how this works.  For example, say I have a hub that contains
> 172.16.255.0, but I want to stick another machine on that hub with the
> ip of 172.16.200.15.  So how's the routing work?  I've tried this and
> this machine can't see any of the others.  The gw on this hub is
> 172.16.255.220, but I can't get the 172.16.200.15 machine to 'see' the
> gw.

You'll need to add a route to that network, directly. It should be identical to
the routing entry for the machine's "native" subnet. Example...

route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 eth0

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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