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Hi There,

That's the sort of awesome homelab question I love :-)

You are right, RIP can't help you with this one. Your diagram was awesome by the way.

The static way I see you working this out would be to create an alias on the Octane interface (so it has two IP addresses) and use the host's file to address the second subnet interface. e.g.


CRIMSON                                                                     OCTANE
et0:  192.168.10.10  (255.255.255.0) ----------------------> ec0:0 192.168.10.11  (255.255.255.0)
fddi: 192.168.11.10  (255.255.255.0) ----------------------> ec0:1 192.168.11.11  (255.255.255.0)

/etc/hosts
CRIMSON 192.168.11.10
OCTANE   192.168.11.11

Code:

richard@marvin [~]: chkconfig
        Flag                 State
        ====                 =====
        OUTPUT TRUNCATED
        ipaliases            on

Code:

richard@marvin [~]: cat /etc/config/ipaliases.options
ec0 192.168.11.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.11.255

Code:

richard@marvin [~]: ifconfig -a
ec0: flags=8410c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,FILTMULTI,MULTICAST,LINK0,IPALIAS,IPV6>
        inet 203.0.113.12 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 203.0.113.255
        inet 192.168.11.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.11.255

Hope that helps and I didn't shoot myself in the nob
Richie

EDIT: Literally changed everything.