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- From: art@acc.com (Art Berggreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Routing IP over X25
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.173348.24581@acc.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:33:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.123440.17671@medusa.prime.com>
- Organization: ACC, Advanced Computer Communications
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Dec11.123440.17671@medusa.prime.com> davidh@CIS.Prime.COM (Dave Hill) writes:
- >I am having a problem routing IP packets over an X25 WAN using Sunlink
- >X25 version 7.0. The problem is as follows:-
- >
- >Using the dynamic interface (std0) in Sunlink X25, I can connect to
- >hosts that have a different IP network number to my own interface, but I
- >cannot use those hosts as routers.
- >
- >Example:- My IP is a class B address xx.xx.1.1, netmask 255.255.0.0 and
- >I can create a path in the X25 configuration file for a host yy.yy.1.1
- >i.e. another network.
- >
- >I can connect to that host OK, so the underlying net is sound. Now, I
- >want to get to another host, say yy.yy.2.1 on a net for which yy.yy.1.1
- >is a router. So I say:-
- >
- >route add net yy.yy.2.0 yy.yy.1.1 1
- >
- >to which route says "network is unreachable". This is because the kernel
- >routing code states that the router must be on the SAME network as your
- >interface. This is normally the case with Ethernet, but can be different
- >with X25!
-
- Sorry, but fairly fundamental to IP routing, is the assumption that for two
- nodes to communicate directly, that they both have interfaces on a common IP
- (sub)network. The traditional way for routers to deal with media like X.25
- that often support multiple logical IP (sub)networks is to configure multiple
- IP addresses on those interfaces for the logical IP networks they need to
- communicate over. The introduction of SMDS and ATM technologies have brought
- some of these issues back into focus are are being actively discussed (especially
- in the IPLPDN working group of the IETF).
-
- Art
-