One other piece of the puzzle fell into place. Although I had VPN connections going from one gateway to the other, I couldn't ping addresses for machines behind the other gateway. Further perusal of the 3 Com documents (not included with the device but on their web site) showed that the LANs needed to be in different sub-nets. So the person who said there might be a routing problem was correct. Simply setting the two LANs to 192.168.1.* and 192.168.2.* respectively fixed the problem.
-Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ben Boulanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:21 AM Subject: Re: Dumb networking question... On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:25:50PM -0500, Ben Boulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Derek Martin wrote: > > This is not entirely true. Many switches have ports that auto-sense > > whether they should be crossed over or straight through... > > Never heard of this - got any models I can look up?? Cool technology > rules. HP Procurve switch that I have recently gotten familar with do this. They call this feature "Auto-MDIX". Sample switches with Auto-MDIX: http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/switches/switch2708-2724/summary.htm http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/switches/switch2524-2512/summary.htm -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'." -- Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss