Looking for Simple Instructions

[Matthew]

Roberto,

 > Oh, interesting. Do you have a physical network sketch?

No. But I'm sure its something like this: (pardon the bad ascii)

                 ----------
                   switch
                 ----------
                     ^
                     |
     ----------------------------------------
     |         |        |         |         |
[server1] [server2] [server3] [server4] [serverX]

I'm sure we share a rack with 23 servers and I bet each server has its 
own 1/2 of a /24 block.  We have 15 servers with this company and each 
server has 1/2 the block. And I agree, completely unnecessary.

 > I'm not sure what I should do with the listing above since it does not
 > tell me much, I'm afraid. From what I see you've sent some sort of
 > your Linux distribution's network configuration. Since I don't
 > understand its semantics I cannot comment it.

	Oh. I was just sending the network setup stuff that our hosting 
provider did on these machines to show the subnetting.

 >> If I can't get my hosting company to put me on 1 subnet, should I
 >> revert back to my original IP config and use IP-TUN instead?
 > Why wouldn't this be possible?

	Well, I asked and they said no. They said once the servers are 
provisioned they can't make changes to the network. But if these servers 
are indeed on the same switch, can't I do the changes myself?

> I presume you haven't change much of the configuration I've proposed 
> earlier, so why does it work nevertheless now? Or did I misinterpret 
> your email?

	Sorry. I should have stated that I changed slave #1 to your suggestion:

RIP = eth1  72.52.166.41/27
VIP = lo:35 72.52.166.35/32
DGW = eth1  72.52.166.33

	I think later today I'm going to try TUN since I'll have to deal with 
the wierd VLAN setup our hosting company does.  Is the best doc the 
mini-HOWTO?

Thanks,
Matthew