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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:50:07
Message-Id: 49bf44f10609281943o2e802bfo853e391b5f95de9e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem by Richard Fish
1 > > eth0 is connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router), and ath0, eth1, and
2 > > eth2 are all meant to allow other systems to connect to the LAN via
3 > > DHCP. Should I be configuring eth1 and eth2 as 192.168.0.1?
4 >
5 > No. Consider the case where your system needs to send an IP packet to
6 > 192.168.0.100. How will it know what card to use to send that?
7 > You've told it that 192.168.0.100 is on ath0...or eth1....or eth2.
8 > They should be separate networks...
9
10 I'm pretty confused. I'm trying to get the system in question to
11 behave like a solid-state router that you can plug an ethernet jack
12 into and be on the network. How should eth1 and eth2 be configured in
13 /etc/conf.d/net ?
14
15 - Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>