Re: neighbour discovery and more than one NIC

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Steven Latr~Ne wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a computer set-up that consists of several PC's that are chained 
> together. Every PC has two NICs and they are chained like this:
> PCA (eth 1) <---> (eth2) PCB (eth1) <--> (eth2) PCC (eth1)
>
> All the addresses run Neighbour Discovery. Now suppose I want to connect to 
> the address corresponding with eth2 on PCC from PCA. When I try to ping it, 
> the ping request gets to PCB but then blocks (PCB doesn't forward the request 
> to PCC via eth1), I suppose this happens because it has to "switch" from NIC.
> Is there a way to ensure that this connection can be made with Neighbour 
> Discovery? So in other words that I can connect two subnetworks with the two 
> NICS?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!


Yes your can connect two subnetwork with two NICs. Your PCB should act as 
a router. You switch on forwarding your PCB, and set up routing 
accordingly.

Regards,

Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
Key 00F9AF98: 8645 1312 D249 471B DBAE  21A2 9F52 0D1F 00F9 AF98



>
> Steven
>
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