Subj : Re: Multiple interfaces same Class C net is bad?
To   : Geo.
From : Randall Parker
Date : Mon Mar 26 2001 09:43 am

From: Randall Parker <rgparker@west.net>

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:08:28 -0500 esteemed Geo. did'st hold forth thusly:
> > I assigned local net IP addresses to both my NICs in my main machine even
> > though one of those NICs only connects to a DSL modem.
>
> Why?

Er, geez, I wasn't thinking clearly.

> > Is that a bad thing to do? Is only only confusing the routing of things
> > if two interfaces in the same machine are on the same Class C network?
>
> It probably confuses your machine a little in that it wouldn't know which
> interface to send local packets to. Other than that I can't imagine that one
> machine would bother the router all that much.

I was told by someone over on Sygate's news groups that this probably the 
reason Sygate Manager wasn't seeing that NIC. So I'm going to remove that local 
IP address from the DSL NIC and see if it helps.

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