Can anybody please tell me what stupid thing is it that I'm doing which makes it impossible for me to ping between hosts in a following HOST1-ROUTER-HOST2 config explained below:
I've got one PC - ROUTER with two ethernet controllers (which have been bonded into one bond0 interface as 192.168.1.2) and two other - HOST1 (192.168.1.1)/HOST2(192.168.1.2) connected to ROUTER via a direct cable link.
I've set them all up to be on the same 192.168.1.0/24 network and I can ping both HOST1 and HOST2 from the ROUTER PC, but I'm not able to ping between HOST1 and HOST2 directly.
What's the catch here? Do I still need to mess around with gateway if they "live" on the same network? Is this some sort of forwarding related issue? I've got a feeling it's a simple, dumb thing, related to the ROUTER not pushing the traffic between those two machines... I just can't crack it :-/ Heck!