Any ideas why this is happening? I dont have a firewall on the 10.54 address,
presumably, the windows machine is connected to the 'eth0' network that the centos machines are connected to?
how exactly do you expect the packets to get from there to the other network? the windows machine has been instructed to forward all unknown packets to 10.54.7.1, which presumably is some other sort of router... chances are, said 10.54.7.1 has no clue where 10.54.0.xxx is.
Ya- I see - your right the router is 10.54.7.1 The rest of the network switches are hubs off of that (all still 10.54.7.)
this private network is truly private (independent to the 2 computers connected) in other words they are off the network, their traffic oesn't go through a switch.
I didn't give this enough thought ....
the fact is I dont need to connect to the 0 address directly from the windows machine. The 0 address is only for private network between the database servers...
I was just curious that I couldn't ping them, I thought ping (and the port scanner) should magically find them (like dns) ...
solution 1) configure a linux computer to do 'ip forwarding', and give the windows machine a route like...
C> route add 10.54.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.54.7.2
or, solution 2) configure the router at 10.54.7.1 to have a route to this other network.
if both networks are on the same hub/switch, then I can only ask... WHY?
Thanks for the insight,
Bob