Question about limited primary addresses

[Patrick Turley]

Jason Opperisano wrote:
 > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:51, Patrick Turley wrote:
 > # uname -a
 > Linux vmg2 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 #2 Fri Sep 3 07:13:35 EDT 2004 i686 Intel(R)
 > Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
 >
 > # ip -4 add sh eth0 | wc -l
 > 513
 >
 > # ip -4 add sh eth0 | head
 > 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
 >     inet 10.1.0.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.1.1.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.1.2.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.1.3.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.1.4.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.1.5.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.1.6.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.1.7.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.1.8.1/24 scope global eth0
 >
 > # ip -4 add sh eth0 | tail
 >     inet 10.2.246.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.247.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.248.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.249.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.250.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.251.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.252.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.253.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.254.1/24 scope global eth0
 >     inet 10.2.255.1/24 scope global eth0
 >
 > from a machine assigned 10.1.1.100/16 and 10.2.1.100/16, i can ping:
 >
 > 10.1.0.1, 10.1.1.1, 10.1.2.1, 10.1.3.1, 10.1.4.1, 10.2.254.1, 10.2.25.1,
 > 10.1.25.1, 10.2.255.1
 >
 > ...on the test machine with all the 10.[1-2].[0-255].1/24 addresses.

I've found that ping is not a good test. Even with the networking 
broken, ping still works. Can you try to SSH/telnet/ftp/foo to the test 
machine?