Dumb networking question...

[Hewitt Tech]

One other piece of the puzzle fell into place. Although I had VPN
connections going from one gateway to the other, I couldn't ping addresses
for machines behind the other gateway. Further perusal of the 3 Com
documents (not included with the device but on their web site) showed that
the LANs needed to be in different sub-nets. So the person who said there
might be a routing problem was correct. Simply setting the two LANs to
192.168.1.* and 192.168.2.* respectively fixed the problem.

-Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Bell" <bobbell at zk3.dec.com>
To: "Ben Boulanger" <ben at blackavar.com>
Cc: <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Dumb networking question...


On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:25:50PM -0500, Ben Boulanger <ben at blackavar.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Derek Martin wrote:
> > This is not entirely true.  Many switches have ports that auto-sense
> > whether they should be crossed over or straight through...
>
> Never heard of this - got any models I can look up??  Cool technology
> rules.

    HP Procurve switch that I have recently gotten familar with do this.
They call this feature "Auto-MDIX".

Sample switches with Auto-MDIX:
http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/switches/switch2708-2724/summary.htm
http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/switches/switch2524-2512/summary.htm

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Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com>
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