Home network routing setup

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Wed Apr 12 23:58:53 2000

It was thus said that the Great Chuck McManis once stated:
>
> Well you have to tell the other systems how to route somehow. For addresses
> that don't go the local subnet they need a routing entry. The simplest one
> is a "default" route that points to your internet gateway, the next
> simplest is to run routed on the gateway and it will broadcast a route to
> the internet every 30 seconds or so.

  But 192.168.0.0 is defined as a private network and won't be routed on the
Internet. The machines that are in the 192.168.0.0 network will have their
gateway set to the machine with two NICs. Then he'll have to run software
to NAT (Network Address Translation) his internal private addresses to one
of the public addresses. I know it's possible under Linux or FreeBSD but I
don't know about NT.

  -spc (And for such a simple network there is no need to run routed unless
        he wants to learn how to use routed)
Received on Wed Apr 12 2000 - 23:58:53 BST