From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.11]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 191979 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:11:34 -0400 Message-ID: <44A05B93.80204@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:11:31 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060531 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0i SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: xwlan 2.14 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/26/06 04:45 pm, Michael Warmuth thus wrote : > Christian Langanke wrote: > [...] > >> I am sorry, but having two interfaces configured to the same subnet is >> wrong. If you mean that you disable one of either interface, this would >> be ok. But it is definitely not sufficient to just "not use" one of >> either interface. The IP stack will not care for if you don't use one of >> two interfaces - exactly one of two will just always win and the other >> will never be used. >> > > It's absolutely no problem to have two interfaces in the same subnet as > long as: > > +) There is only one route to the subnet > +) The hostid is set correctly > > Per your second point, Michael, how do you propose setting the host ID correctly such that a single address is associated with it? In my experience, having two non-teamed NICs connected to the same subnet has resulted in a tons of dropped packets and overall poor communication, aside from the probable packet storm from other clients trying to reach one interface and hitting the other. >>> 9) Run rfcaddr for TCPBEUI >>> >>> >> Note that NetBEUI is currently ot handled by XWLAN, so you would have to >> do that with the script feature. >> > > I know, but the problem is that the script is run before the WLAN > interface is configured (which I think is OK). And rfcaddr.exe should be > run afterwards. > > From the Help file: This script is executed after the TCP/IP interface has been either configured or unconfigured. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users International www.novell.com/linux/truth Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------