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q: how to prevent ubuntu from combining networks on 2 nic server? ive got a ubuntu server 10.10 with 2 network interfaces with a cable plugged into both going to switches on completely different networks with different routers.  one network is the 10.1.10.x network with a separate gateway/router - the server has an ip of 10.1.10.50 with the gateway ip of 10.1.10.1.  the other interface is 10.2.10.x, ip 10.2.10.50, gateway 10.2.10.1.
all my mac machines are on the 10.2.10.x network, and all servers on the 10.1.10.x.  the only connection between the two is this machine.  from a mac in my office, i cannot ping any computer on the 10.1.10.x network except the ubuntu machine im talking about.  however, under the shared column in finder, i can see every server on the other network listed.  that makes me believe that somehow this ubuntu machine is letting certain requests span both networks, which is a security problem.
hope this is enough info.

a: do you have samba running on the ubuntu server? i would guess this has to do with smb browsing where samba announces all the other smb servers it sees on both interfaces, possibly acting as a wins server. 

a: unless packet forwarding is enabled or iptables rules are in place ubuntu shouldnt be forwarding any packets from one interface to the other. can you try running traceroute from the mac to the server.

a: i think youre seeing avahi(the linux implementation of bonjour) sharing the hostnames of hosts it sees on each network. you can turn this off, but you wont see this ubuntu server in your macs shared column.
you should be able disable it by running
stop avahi-daemon

if that helps, ypu can prevent it from running at boot by renaming /etc/init/avahi-daemon.conf to something that doesnt end in .conf .

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I counted 28 "f"s in that text.
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