Re: (PM) multi network ethernet... (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 23:29:44 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Dave Burgess shaped the electrons to say...
>Which is exactly how they are set up; That's the problem. I expected
>the 22 bit subnet mask to work correctly with the Portmaster. I went so

Well, they should be...

>far as to check both the 'show ether0' and the 'ifconfig' reports. They
>all agree the ethernet port is set up correctly (the netmask is set for
>22 bits).

And 'show routes' should show a 'NL' route for the ether that covers the
/22 network. Is that correct too?

If you try ping and traceroute to the hosts on the /22, can you see
them from the command line? How about 'show arp ether0'?

>The only thing that I have seen that might make a difference is that the
>default routing is set to "Quiet". Might one of the other settings make

You mean under 'show global'? That shouldn't play a role here. That just
means it isn't listening to learn a default route, or broadcasting its
default route. In fact, active routing protocols shouldn't be concerned
here. As long as everythign is on the same /22 logical network, ARP and
Proxy-ARP should deal with it.

>a difference with traffic getting to and from the modems? Another

Nothing I'm aware of.

>stretch - since the PM address is in the third block of the supernet,
>could that be confusing it? I'm not really thrilled about moving all of

No, that shouldn't matter.

Do you have 'set user-netmask on'? And what netmask do users get? /32?

-MZ

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