Hi Mark, I'm not sure I understand your setup. Is the x.x.x.145 machine your router or your ISP's? What do the routing tables look like for each machine you control? From my experience, an upstream connection is usually placed on a bridge network such as a /30. You may want to try something like transparent bridging...
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Bridge/index.html If I were you, I'd expediate that switch. Unless you're going to do some sort of firewall or proxy, a $20 hub will get you by and would make life a lot simpler. -eric > Not strictly Debian related but the boxes in question are deb powered. I > have just been given a /28 (16 node) subnet and until I get a switch in > place I have a short xover eth cable between two boxes. I thought I > could get away with a couple of static routes in the mean time but the > upstream default gateway on the first box keeps arping for the IP on the > 2nd box... subnet is x.x.x.144/28 ... > > x.x.x.145 <-> eth0:x.x.x.146 eth1:x.x.x.147 <-xover-> eth0:x.x.x.158 > > Any suggestions as to how x.x.x.158 can see the outside world ? > > --markc > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************* Eric Cunningham Network Administrator Beccel Systems http://www.beccel.com *********************