WAY Off Topic : routing

From: Jay West <jlwest_at_tseinc.com>
Date: Tue Aug 3 18:46:17 1999

You wrote...
>I believe that ppp0 is the default gateway on my p166.

ppp0? I'm a freebsd person myself, not linux, but isn't ppp0 the SLIP/PPP
interface over a serial connection? I thought we were talking ethernet
here...

>Trying 192.168.1.2...
>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host


Aha...
How can you have an IP address/subnetmask on the interface without getting a
network (192.168.1.0) route via your ethernet interface? Since there's no
route to the host, just show us the output of a "netstat -rn" (that's a - r
n not a -m) on each machine and that will show the problem for sure. Also,
in your configuration I would suggest not running any routing daemon
(routed, gated, etc.) - they'll just get in the way.

Jay West
Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 18:46:17 BST