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From: Payam Chychi <pchychi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What is so special about 172.31.254.254
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:05:36 -0700
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how are they "not" seeing each other? we talking on layer2, 3, 4, or 7 =
?
do you have a local arp table on the system showing the neighboring sys=
tem?
do you have a transparent firewall in between enforcing layer2 policies=
?
do you have arp-proxy or gratuitous arp setup on your devices?


-P



On 12-04-04 8:55 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
> On 04/04/2012 08:25 AM, G=E1sp=E1r Lajos wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have a strange scenario.
>> For test reasons I had setup two PC-s.
>>
>> 1. 172.31.254.1
>> 2. 172.31.254.254
>>
>> Netmask 255.255.255.0
>>
>> They do not see each other...
>> But if I change the second IP (for example to 172.31.254.253) then i=
t
>> all good...
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> Hi Swifty.
>
> Could it be that x.x.x.254 is somewhere defined as a default gateway?
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