On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 23:53, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 23:45, Jim Cunning wrote:
There is no requirement on a point-to-point link that both ends be in the same subnet. For that matter, there is no requirement that either the near or far interface have an IP address at all. Anything the local host sends to the near end interface is only going to go to the far end interface--at which point further routing must happen. Cisco has been doing that for years, even on frame relay circuits.
Jim
Yes, circuitless connections. Nortel routers also support that. Never used those much as it made monitoring and trouble shooting of the circuits more difficult. There are several ways to skin a cat and to setup a network. ;)
Even though we are getting OT here, have you ever had a eth interface on a router go down but the circuit was still up? Try connecting (telnet) to the router without an IP on the serial interface. I do this quite often to help trouble shoot a connection problem. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)