On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:11:40PM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 7/28/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I was going through google to see if its possible for different networks to talk to each other directly ( from your observation that you could ping a foreign gateway). I came across the link that was posted in the earlier mail. Your
I think you could reach any machine if it is directly connected to you (through a hub/switch/cross-connection) and you have an explicit route to it.
In an office, there was a room with existing pcs on a lan with network of 192.168.0.0 and I had to setup 4 pcs in another room which were to be a seperate group. So I gave a different network id to this group and got them talking on a lan switch. However the printer was a lan based one on the first network so I linked the two switches with a cable. However I could not ping the other network. Ultimately I had to use the first network id itself and have seperate workgroups.
Thats why I am wondering how you could directly talk to a foreign gateway that does not share your network id.
What do you mean by explicit route? Normally a router links 2 different networks.
Regards,
Rony.
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