Re: [PLUG] binding specific NIC to multiple IPs

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Thanks.  This sounds like the detail I needed.


On Thursday 14 December 2006 14:42, Chad Vogelsong wrote:
> Unplug the eth0 cables and "ifconfig eth0 down".  Edit the hosts file and
> remove (or comment out) entries relating to the other computer.
>
> If both your computers are plugged into the router (multiple ports
> available), then by asking your linux machine where the other computer is
> "ping other-machine", it should find it.
>
> Make sure eth1 is the default route.
> "route" - to see the table
> "man route" - to see how to modify the table if needed
>
> Try to ping the IP address of the windows computer, then the hostname if
> that succeeds.  I don't know why you would want to have the 2 NIC's and the
> separate cable to connect them, when they can go through the switch in your
> router.
>
> Chad
>
> >I've asked this question before, but didn't get an answer I could
> > understand.
> >
> >Maybe I was asking wrong.
> >
> >I want to reconfigure a LAN that consists of 2 computers, one Linux and
> > one win2k.
> >
> >Right now, each computer has 2 NICs.  One NIC in each is connected to a
> > DSL router, and the other is connected to a LAN hub.  Works fine, but I
> > think there is a bottleneck with the old hub.
> >
> >Presently, eth1 (and its corollary on the win2k machine) is used with the
> > DSL
> >
> >router and gets its addressing from the router's DHCP server.  Eth0 is
> > used for the LAN via the hub and its addressing is done with an
> > /etc/hosts file (and a hosts file on the windows machine as well).
> >
> >My DSL router also functions as a LAN hub.  Accessing its web-based
> >configuration, I can see that it is assigning LAN IP addresses via its
> > DHCP server to each client properly.
> >
> >My problem is getting my clients set up to use eth1 and the assigned IPs
> >instead of eth0 and the static IPs for peer to peer LAN connections.
> >
> >Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> >
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