I am still having some difficulty understanding what is going on with routing on 192.168.x.x. I have removed the IP aliases from the gateway eth1 so that it only responds to aaa.bbb.ccc.1. I have changed the netmask on Host B eth1 [192.168.209.43] to 255.255.0.0 and set its gateway to aaa.bbb.ccc.1; as I have on all of the guests that have eth1 active. The network service on both hosts and guests has been restarted. However, when I do a traceroute from Host C [aaa.bbb.ccc.25] to 192.168.209.43 it still goes directly to the gateway at aaa.bbb.ccc.1 and thence out to the eth0 i/f on the gateway, where it dies as before. I note that Host C is a xen virtual host (used for some experiments several years ago but no longer hosting any active guests) and that it has the following virtual interface: 5: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0 This has an address in the same network as 192.168.209.43 but with a different netmask. This seems to eb the case on the kvm virtual hosts as well. 6: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/ether 52:54:00:a6:3f:49 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0 So, is this the source of the problem when I try and connect to 192.168.209.43? Is the netblock 192.168.255.255 constrained to use a netmask of 255.255.255.0 because of its use by the virtual hosts? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos