Re: [Sheflug] Network configs

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

>
> > Since NICs, and hubs and all that is favour of the moment, could someone
> > tell me if this is possible:
> >
> >  5 machines all on hub, plus one machine with two NICs, one to hub, and
> > one to a sixth machine.
> >  Can I access machine #6 from any machine, or would I have to log into
> > machine #5 to get access to machine #6?
>
> On the machine with two cards, ensure there is a good routing table for both
> networks, then on all the other machines, make sure their routing tables are
> good. :) It's just basic routing ...

Yuk... ugly.  How about proxy-arp?  Never set it up on Linux, only a BSD,
though, so I'm not much help there.

Cheers

Richard

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