At 11:23 AM 10/28/98 +0000, you wrote:

And you point? [PC's as routers is as old as the hills, loads of ISP's do it].

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My point was to answer a gentlemans questions about using linux to route multiple NICs and multiple aliases. It started out like this:

From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> Subject: Re: test Other lessons learned, Linux won't route between multiple NICs, using multiple aliases, even with ip-forwarding enabled.

...to which I replied:

Someone needs to tell one of our routers this. It has been routing between multiple NICs for well over a year without any problem.

From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> In that case, I would dearly love to hear how it was done.

...to which I replied with concise information about the box in question, what each interface and alias was doing and why. It is at this point in the thread that you reply. Perhaps if you had read previous or subsequent messages in the thread, you would have realized that just because you and I know about PC's as routers and at least one of us, I can't speak for you, knows how to build and admin them, doesn't mean that the entire readership of NANOG does. The last time I checked, DOMINO.ORG wasn't an NSP, yet you still read NANOG. There are more NONE NSP people reading than you might realize and when they ask a question, wouldn't you think it makes more sense to ANSWER it rather berate them or the person(s) trying to answer it The thread goes on as it is interesting to at least a few of us and unlike much of the chatter, actually has something to do with the network. ------- John Fraizer | __ _ The System Administrator | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ | The choice mailto:John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / | of a GNU http://www.EnterZone.Net/ | /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ | Generation A 486 is a terrible thing to waste...