Re: No Answers Yet !!!
Tim Walberg (twalberg@terabridge.com)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:28:04 -0500
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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