Re: [Sheflug] Re: Network Goes on Holiday

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    Al> The two machines *have* to be on the same subnet. If the
    Al> Debian box is on 192.168.0.1, and you don't want to change the
    Al> config on the Debian box, then the SuSE box *has* to be on
    Al> 192.168.0.* somewhere - like 192.168.0.5.

This is simply not true.  Life is easier this way, for sure.  But you
can set up any bizarre routing you want to by hand.  At least, I can
on my Debian box.  Have done so.  (I found it a bit surprising, might
even be a bug.)

Not by Yast, of course.  Nor do I know what evil implications it might
have for things more complicated than ping and traceroute, or for a
firewall.  I do know that the packets go through.


-- 
University of Tsukuba                Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences       Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091
_________________  _________________  _________________  _________________
What are those straight lines for?  "XEmacs rules."
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to
- <sheflug-request [at] vuw.ac.nz> - with the word 
 "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.