Re: Today's Brain Teaser.

[Raymond Leach <raymondl@knowledgefactory.co.za>]

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On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 10:35, Jonathan Humphrey wrote:
> I've been struggling with this one for some time, i am currently at
> the end of my teather so if anyone has any great ideas about why this
> happens let me know.
>  
> Basically, i have a linux server that has three interfaces;
>  
>     eth1          aaa.aaa.aaa.202        External Facing network
>     eth0          bbb.bbb.bbb.254        Internal protected network
>     eth1:0       aaa.aaa.aaa.197        External IP Address for
> FTPServer
>  
> I have a device that sits on xxx.xxx.xxx.5 that cannot get to any
> service on aaa.aaa.aaa.197, however every other ip address i have
> tried can.  I suspect that if i release the real ip address of
> aaa.aaa.aaa.197 then everyone reading this list could too.
>  
> And it's on the .5 address, if i try from xxx.xxx.xxx.15 i can
> connect.
Where is xxx.xxx.xxx.5? Is it on the internal or external network?

>  
> Nothing is being show as dropped in the logs either.    
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jonathan Humphrey
>  
> 
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