what I guess I'm asking

thefear78

is can I have two hosts directly connected to two seperate ethernet ports and 'talk' to each other?

I should not have to set static routes using the exit ethernet ports to accomplish this should I?

Could you give me a simple config to meditate on as this is driving me nuts!! Help is much appreciated!

Darthn3ss

i don't think you would, since the router would already know about each subnet.. but i'll test it for you.

networker050184

Did you set the default gateway on the hosts?

Darthn3ss

i just did this, worked fine.

Router#sh run
Building configuration...

Current configuration:
!
version 12.0
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption
!
hostname Router
!
!
ip subnet-zero
!
!
!
!
interface Ethernet0
 ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.252
 no ip directed-broadcast
!
interface Ethernet1
 ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.252
 no ip directed-broadcast
!
interface Serial0
 no ip address
 no ip directed-broadcast
 no ip mroute-cache
 shutdown
!
interface Serial1
 no ip address
 no ip directed-broadcast
 shutdown
!
ip classless
!
!
line con 0
 transport input none
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
!
end

configured each host on the appropriate subnet, with the defualt gateway the address of the interface its attached to...

computers config
PC1 -
IP: 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.252
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1

PC2 -
IP: 192.168.2.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.252
Default Gateway: 192.168.2.1

i can ping between each host.

routing table:

Router#sh ip route
Codes: C - connected, S - static, I - IGRP, R - RIP, M - mobile, B - BGP
       D - EIGRP, EX - EIGRP external, O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area
       N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2
       E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2, E - EGP
       i - IS-IS, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS level-2, * - candidate default
       U - per-user static route, o - ODR

Gateway of last resort is not set

     192.168.1.0/30 is subnetted, 1 subnets
C       192.168.1.0 is directly connected, Ethernet0
     192.168.2.0/30 is subnetted, 1 subnets
C       192.168.2.0 is directly connected, Ethernet1

sprkymrk

thefear78 wrote:

is can I have two hosts directly connected to two seperate ethernet ports and 'talk' to each other?

I should not have to set static routes using the exit ethernet ports to accomplish this should I?

Could you give me a simple config to meditate on as this is driving me nuts!! Help is much appreciated!

The router itself is aware of directly connected networks, so does not need static routes for these. Depending on the routing protocol in use, it is aware of other networks not directly connected (say several hops away). A static route would be used for special circumstances usually.