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Subject: RE: [ts-7000] RE: ts-7800 how do I make 4 (at least 2) identical network stacks?
From: Walter Marvin <>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 17:52:56 -0800 (PST)
This has nothing to do with th ts-7800's native networking the guy has two 
boxes with duplicate IPs he can't change, and wants to talk to both with one box
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On Mon, 11/4/13, Paul Yanzick <> wrote:

 Subject: RE: [ts-7000] RE: ts-7800 how do I make 4 (at least 2) identical 
network stacks?
 To: 
Date: Monday, November 4, 2013, 10:13 AM
















  



  


    
      
      
       Perhaps I am not
 familiar with the way the 8700 works… however if it acts
 as a multihomed unit, you will have issues.  if you use
 1.1.1.xxx and plan on using the same on all , they ARE the
 same network from an IP perspective.  They would all be
 1.1.1.0/24. 
  From: 
  On Behalf Of
 Jonathan Leslie
 Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 12:11 PM
 To: 
 Subject: Re: [ts-7000] RE: ts-7800 how do I make 4
 (at least 2) identical network
 stacks?    What do you mean about
 "4
 NICs… all with different IP’s on the same
 network. " ?   I want 4
 DIFFERENT networks. All 4 networks are 1.1.1.xxx.   The
 TS-8700 maintains  itself as 4 completely different
 nodes on all 4 networks, but it has the same ip address
 (1.1.1.200 for example.)  I want 4 separate programs
 (or threads)  all thinking they are node 1.1.1.200, but
 all on different networks.   I never have one node
 1.1.1.101 talking to another node 1.1.1.101 on a different
 network. each device 1.1.1.101 talks on its own separate
 network to a node 1.1.1.200 on its
 network. 
  
  
  
  

From: Paul Yanzick
 <>
 To: 
 Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 11:28 AM
 Subject: RE: [ts-7000] RE: ts-7800 how do I make 4
 (at least 2) identical network stacks?
   
 Here is the thing
 that I think will be the problem… 4 NICs… all with
 different IP’s on the same network. 4 legacy devices all
 with the same IP…  how is it going to
 route? Lets say, for
 example, the IP’s are 10.1.1.1, .2, .3, and .4 for the 4
 NICs, and we will assume subnetted to 24 bits.  Lets
 then also say that the IP’s of the legacy devices are all
 10.1.1.10.  The legacy devices can talk to the 8700
 without issue… getting the message back could be the
 problem.  The routing table is going to see that it is
 on the same network, so it doesn’t have to hit a router…
 but then which NIC will it send a reply back to?  By
 detault the route will show routes for the 10.1.1.x network
 either from 1 network adapter, or all of them (haven’t
 tried, so can’t say).  If it shows the route for all
 of them… how will it know which one to send it to? 
 It will  use the routing table to determine what NIC to
 send the packet out of.  It isn’t going to just send
 a reply back out of the NIC that it received the message
 from.  You can’t play tricks with more specific
 subnetting either since all of the legacy devices are on the
 same IP.   There may be some
 magic that can be done… I haven’t ever tried it… but
 it seems what this would be doing would be breaking
 fundamental routing rules, so not sure how easily that will
 be done.   Another option
 (requiring more hardware for sure, but more feasible) would
 be to insert something else between the legacy devices and
 the 8700 which performs some NATting.  Then you can
 have each device on a different network, allowing the 8700
 to manage communication as it would for any other multihomed
 device. I wish you the best
 of luck doing it though!  Interesting
 problem. From:   On 
Behalf Of
 
 Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 10:05 AM
 To: 
 Subject: [ts-7000] RE: ts-7800 how do I make 4 (at
 least 2) identical network stacks?  
  I
 think the salient issue is that the four legacy boxes need
 to be on separate networks. Each of the ethernet interfaces
 can be a separate network. The four interfaces can be given
 four different addresses. The custom application (or any
 application at all; the magic will be done in the kernel
 with the iptables rules) talks to IP addresses which get
 trapped by rules which NAT/route the destination addresses
 to a specific interface. Any application can then talk to a
 specific IP address, but the kernel will route the traffic
 to a 10.1.1.xxx address on the correct interface. This is
 conceptually similar to using Linux to create a LAN-WAN
 router with port forwarding, except in this case, the WAN
 side is internal to the Linux host, and there are multiple
 LAN interfaces.Totally
 do-able, but will take some fiddling to get the right
 rules. 

 ---In  <> wrote:You can
 be a pro in some areas but not others. The guy admits his
 experience is only at the socket level. That's not
 enough for what he wants to do. Its not silly to be
 ignorant, it is silly to stay that way. BTW he's been
 given a lot of bad advice on this forum.
 He will either have to hire help, or do a lot of work.
 --------------------------------------------On Mon,
 11/4/13, Petr Štetiar <> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ts-7000] RE: ts-7800 how do I make 4 (at least
 2) identical network stacks?
 To: 
Date: Monday, November 4, 2013, 2:14 AM

 Jonathan Leslie <>
 [2013-11-03 06:30:51]:

 > I'm confused,  I have to send messages to
  two
 different devices, both have
 > address 1.1.1.101. The way I've done it in the past
 was
 to set up two
 > different IP stacks, with different SOCK.  I want
 to
 repeat this on a
 > TS-7800 only this time I need 4 different IP stacks as
 I have 4 different
 > devices 1.1.1.101.

 What's so confusing in "Buy TCP/IP book and read
 it" ?

 I don't know what a SOCK is neither I know what
 you've done
 in the past.

 What I know is, that you're kind of a silly guy, which
 is
 calling himself a
 Pro, but don't know even basic networking stuff. And as
 a
 bonus point, you're
 going to use USB ethernet in production...

 Pro would buy OpenWrt capable 4-5 port router and would do
 NAT with iptables.

 -- ynezz


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