Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:28:04 -0500 | From | Tim Walberg <> | Subject | Re: No Answers Yet !!! |
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On 07/30/1999 16:45 -0400, Hormuzd KHOSRAVI wrote: >> Hi Frank, >> >> on one of the interfaces of the router i wanted to have two IP addresses >> for my experimental setup. thats why i used aliasing .... >> on router :- >> eth0 -> IP Address ->138.34.x.x. >> eth0:0 -> IP Address -> 10.1.10.2 (this is the alias) >> >> i also used tcpdump and saw that the router never sends out an arp request >> for 10.1.10.1 and the packet is just dropped after it reaches the router. >> it works fine when the arp cache of the router has the hwaddress of the >> destination. (10.1.10.1) guess thats because of some optimizations in the >> kernel routing code. >>
might this be because 10.x.x.x is considered non-routable, so the router is just ignoring it? just a guess...
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