Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> thus wrote: > On Tuesday 29 October 2002 6:58 am, Rohan Almeida wrote: > > Noy my setup is such, that a user on the LAN, > > would like to have an ip from the 172.16.2.0/24 network. > > What, whilst still plugged in to eth1 ? Why ? Honestly, i have no clue, Its just a network setup which I have to solve somewhere. I tried explaining them the problem but they are adamant on using the existing setup. > How are you allocating your addresses on the two networks at the moment ? > > If it's a system administrator handing out static addresses and recording > who's got what, then tell the person on the LAN to go to the sysadmin and ask > for an unused address. > > If it's a DHCP server handing out addresses on request, try setting up a > DHCRELAY (there's another thread going in this mailing list at the moment > about getting that working with netfilter) so pass addresses from one network > to the other. Its a DHCP server I'll take a look at DHCPRELAY. Maybe it can help me Thanx -- arc_of_descent