[plug] ip address and interface question

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Fri Jun 23 09:01:14 WST 2006


Bit vague, more info needed: 
what distro and version
How are you bringing the interfaces up/down (initscripts, GUI tool,
ifconfig, ...)
Are you using a firewall (home brew or script)
Where are you pinging from (localhost or remotely)

BillK


On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:55 +0800, Jason wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
> 
> I'm a new subscriber to PLUG but I've been using linux for about 7 or so years now as my primary OS on my laptop and other random machines in my 
> house :)
> 
> This is an annoyance that I've had since first installing linux on my laptop a couple of years ago and finally thought I'd try to find out how to fix 
> it :)
> 
> I have two interfaces, eth0 (wired) and eth1 (wireless ipw2200 drivers).  eth0 is configured with the ip address of 192.168.0.4 and eth1 192.168.0.5.
> 
> If I bring down eth1 and bring up eth0, or vice versa, I can still ping both ip address and receive replies, even though one of the interfaces 
> associated with one of the ip addresses is down.
> 
> Although this isn't life-threatening or causing any problems, it just bugs the hell out of me!
> 
> Can anyone tell me:
> 
> 1.  Why it acts in this manner?
> 2.  How I can stop it?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jason.
> 
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