I agree this setup looks weird or plain wrong to me
Yes, this does work if I add the route manually
And, no I'm not the cisco guy :) I'm the Linux guy. I will try talking to
the networking people to see if we can talk on a separate network

Thanks a lot & Regards

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Tom Sightler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:07 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> > Thanks that almost worked, but it seems whenever eth1 gets its IP, an
> > automatic route is added to 172.30.0.0/16 through eth1. When
> > route-eth1 tries to add the needed route, I get the error "RTNETLINK
> > answers: File Exists"
> >
> Um, yes, that's the way IP networking works.  You've created an
> interface with an IP of 172.30.0.3 with a netmask of 255.255.0.0, that
> means you've told the system that 172.30.0.3 can reach all 65534 host
> WITHOUT a router.  Then you trying to override that by adding a route by
> claiming that the other 65533 (every host except for this one) is
> reachable only via a router.  That's not really a valid configuration in
> my book so it's doesn't really surprise me.
>
> Are you able to make this work by manually adding the route?  Are you
> able to post the "router" config.  What networks is this "router"
> actually routing.
>
> Later,
> Tom
>
>
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