[ILUG] PAN0 killing net

[Philip Creevy]

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 14:45 -0400, Lance Dryden wrote:
> Scríobh Philip Creevy:
> > I'am just curious as to what happened with my internal network.
> > on 2 machines I used IFCONFIG to bring up PAN0 but ping and 
> > dns stopped working internally but yet 1 of the machines that 
> > I tried to browse the internet worked.
> > ping reported destination host unreachable.
> > The interfaces I used were,
> > eth0 is 192.168.100.21
> > pan0 was 192.168.100.23
> > second machine is,
> > eth0 192.168.100.191
> > pan0 192.168.100.21
> > pan0 was bough up with
> > ifconfig pan0 192.168.100.23 netmask 255.255.255.0
> > Taking both pan0 interfaces down restored functionality.
> 
> For the pan0 interfaces, use something other than 192.168.100.X; you're 
> more-or-less confusing your network stack by indicating that two 
> different interfaces that are unlikely to be L2-adjacent are in fact 
> L2-adjacent.
> 
> 
Changing to a different subnet seems to work.
The second pan0 address may be a typo, I can't remember 
all the addresses I was using.
Philip