Re: Multiple Class Cs on same physical network

Ed Longstrom (edl@rock.spectra.net)
Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:23:57 -0500 (EST)

I tried this with a Cisco router, using a secondary address
on 1 of the ethernet ports. If you try to serve dynamic ip
addresses that are NOT in the physical wire addresses it
won't work. At least it didn't work for me.

Ed

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On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 portmaster@deathstar.comnet.ca wrote:

> I have recently added a class C address to a network that already has
> a Class C address. Both class C addresses operate on the same
> physical network. (%95 of the addresses are virtual domains that are
> not very busy, so it isn't too crowded.. yet!)
>
> Anyhow, my name server is in the 205.206.213.0 network and I want to
> move all my PMs to the 206.75.140.0 network. Will the portmaster
> have any difficulties communicating with the other class c addresses
> in the network? Do I have to add any routing info in the PM or will
> just a default gateway to my cisco router suffice?
>
> I use routed on unix hosts and have set all PMs to have routing on.
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pat
>