Re:[TCLUG:10119] IP Routing question

["Christopher Foss" <cfoss@cbsol.com>]

A thought on my part. Have you tried putting the two 
daughter machines in each others' /etc/hosts file?

The part about the cards is garbage. The machine will 
pass data through them quite handily when you get it 
configured correctly.

>"Only high end NICs will hand off packets for routing.
>Put Intel, 3COM, or (real) NE2000 NICs in cerberus."
>If that's true why the hell wouldn't O'Reilly's _TCP
>Network Administration_ mention that little catch? If I
>can't hear any better suggestions I'll get new NICs,
>but if (and I may be wrong) routing is done at the OS
>level what does it matter to the NIC if the packet
>will be given to antoher NIC or used at the host?