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Re: Hubless network?



On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Peter Billson wrote:
>I am trying to avoid using a hub (hub goes *poof* neither machine can
>talk to the Net) to connect 2 internal machines to the net through a

Hubs go "poof" far less often than PCs running Linux.

>Linux box configured as a router. The box has three NIC cards as
>follows:
>
>eth0 - 192.168.1.6 connection to my Internet gateway (192.168.1.1)
>eth1 - 192.168.2.1 connection to box 1 (192.168.2.2)
>eth2 - 192.168.2.4 connection to box 2 (192.168.2.3)

If eth1 and eth2 are not physically on the same LAN then put them in
different networks.  Use
eth2 - 192.168.3.4 connection to box 2 (192.168.2.3) and everything will work.

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