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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Two network adapters
Date: 29 Apr 1997 09:57:17 GMT
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In article <01bc5419$dbc57e00$17d1d0cd@fred.scaleable.com>,
"Fred Young" <myoung@scaleable.com> writes:
> I installed a second network adapter in my machine that 's on the same
> network as the first network adapter. I gave the second adapter an IP
> address using ifconfig and the machine responds to the second adapter, but
> here's the problem. All responses are sent from the first adapter even
> though the source IP address is the IP address of the second adapter. What
> am I doing wrong?
What do you expect it to do ? It's finding the first routing table
entry and obeying it.
You should add a static route (to localhost) for the new IP number.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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