Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > Having more than one > interface in the same network range is generally a bad idea, but > works reasonably provided one uses a subnet of the other. For all practical purposes it is unusable, since the subnetting-scheme is hardcoded into the linux kernel. Bummer! > The Linux kernel can route in pretty much any manner you > can imagine, it just needs to be given proper instructions. But as > always it is best to design your network in such manner that no > strange routing is needed. You are right, ie: Do not use overlapping subnets! Thanks for the tip, but it would have helped being more explicit. Regards to all, AL - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html