From: "Jeroen Verstegen" Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:42:36 +0100 Message-ID: <000401c05b6a$4603f7a0$0301a8c0@winwork.jota.th> Subject: Network with 2 hubs Hi all, I've got a problem with my network. Here's the situation: One Penium 60 (no PCI slots), and a couple of other PC's being a mixture of different pentiums 100+ mhz, running on Win98 or SuSE7.0 I have a 10mbps hub, but now I also bought a 100mbps one(not a switch), which was reasonably cheap. All of the sytems have a 10/100mbps nic, except for the Pentium60, which doesn't support PCI. I use the P60 as a firewall/gateway to the outside world. I wanted to save some money and not buy an extra 10/100mbps hub, so I put second nic in my main fileserver, which is always switched on anyway. I hooked it up to the 10mbps hub to let it connect to the P60-firewall. Still with me? So now the situation is as follows: P60: SuSE7.0, 1 isdn card connected to outside plus 1 nic 10mbps connected to 10mbps hub P500: SuSE 7.0, 1 pci nic 100 mbps connected to 100mbsp hub and one nic 10 mbps connected to 10 mbps hub All others are connected to 100 mbps hub. P60 hub10 P500 hub100 ----------- ------- ----------- ------- ISP <----->| ISDN | |10mbps |<----->|192.168.2.1| |100mbps|<--> others |192.168.2.5|<----->| hub | |192.168.1.1|<---->| hub | (192.168.1.*) ----------- ------- ----------- ------- P60 does nothing but firewalling and gatewaying and vbox. (Very small HD) P500 does DNS, YPserver, Samba, mail etc. All others are just clients (win and SuSE) Now there are two problems: 1. I can see (ping, telnet etc) P500 from P60 and from all other PC's. I can also get to P60 from P500. But to all others P60 is invisible and vice versa. 2. I cannot get ypclient to work on P60 (domain not bound), but it does work on other Linux machines connected to the 100mbps hub. And a question: Do I have to use a different 3rd part of the ip-address (eg .2.5 vs .1.5) when using 2 hubs? I've tried the searching the howto's and other docs, but to no avail. Can anybody point me in the right direction? I feel it would be a waste of money to go out and get a switch hub, altough timewise... :-) <p>thanks for any help! keep up the good work Jeroen Verstegen jeroen@jota.nl http://www.jota.nl Jeroen Verstegen jeroen@jota.nl http://www.jota.nl