> I would raise a few questions about that inferface:
> 1. You have an none routable ip.
> 2. That broadcast looks odd, I may be wrong on that but a "normal" single
> subnet broadcast would be: 192.168.2.255 which is what you mask would
> indicate.
>
> > , I have 7% packet loss during "ping" to the neighbour host in the same
> > local network. The opposite "ping" from the neighbour host to mine fails
> > completely with 100% loss. Its parameters:
>
> <lo snipped>
>
> > eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:95:80:01:E3
> > inet addr:194.247.138.97 Bcast:194.247.138.111
> Mask:255.255.255.240
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:187471 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > TX packets:188970 errors:23 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x320
> >
> > eth0:0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:95:80:01:E3
> > inet addr:192.168.2.8 Bcast:192.168.2.15
> Mask:255.255.255.240
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
> How are you connected to this neighbour? (I assume that you are connected
> to the same hub as the uplink to the outside world and the alias is on the
> same interface. have you checked the routing on the other machine and made
> sure that packets aliased inferface are sent back ov er the aliased
> interface? I also note that the mask is different on the 2 different
> machines. I also see that the same broadcast is on the neighbour is there
> a reason for this I am missing?
>
[Luijpen, Alexander van] Apparently, for the eth0 device, it is on
a subnet in the range of 194.247.138.96 to 194.247.138.111.. (in hex: .$60
to .$6f). Maybe this machine is on somekind of network where there are up to
14 machines on a single location (class room ? floor ? street ?), so
different locations are officially on different subnets. This would mean
that the master gateway must have a lot of devices or aliases (one for each
location). My guess is there is something wrong in routing.
> --
>
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