Hi,

Short time reader, first time poster.

A customer of ours recently ordered 2 F720's and snapmirror and had it delivered to us to put up in our co-location.

His current setup is 8 BSDI 4.0.1 machines, all on various subnets, into a Cisco 2924 and then some other stuff before it hits our router.

So, I put each of the filers on their own subnet too.

When I do the mount from the MAIN IP on the box, to the MAIN IP on the filer, life is fair (Tweaking NFS is a priority). The issue I have is since they are on 2 different subnets, the data goes out over the 2924, past the "stuff", to the router, back down the same pipe, past the "stuff" again, to the filer. LOTS of unnecessary traffic.

SO, to prevent all the 8 machines currently from wasting bandwdith, they all have a 172.16 private network IP with a 255.255.0.0 subnet (Machine 1 is 172.16.100.1, Machine 2 is 172.16.101.1, etc). I put an alias on the e0 of 172.16.120.1 . However, when I mount it, it just doesn't work.

Any "oh yea, you can't do that idiot" or other comments, or ways to figure out whats happening?

Thanks, Tuc/TTSG