ip address and netmask

[Harland Christofferson <debian-user@zerocrossings.com>]

I am slowly working toward a vpn between the office and home. I now 
have to change my lan at work so as not to conflict w/ the lan at 
home. 

at work, i reconfigured my eth1 interface:

eth1         192.168.2.1 255.255.254.0
eth1:0       192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

the windblows machine i have connected to eth1 is 192.168.1.100 255.
255.255.0  this configuration will conflict w/ the lan at home. when 
i reconfigure the windblows machine to 192.168.2.100 255.255.254.
0, it arps but i cannot ping 192.168.2.1 

i don't think the ip address is outside of the range of the netmask 
but maybe i am incorrect?

suggestions?

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