Re: Need help setting up route

["U. George" <gatgul gatworks com>]

route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0 (on computer B.)

on computer A, there should be a gateway setup by the PPP process to 
route any non 192.168.0.* packets through ppp0


Bob R. Taylor wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I recently installed AlphaCore 0.9 on my LX164. I was running Red Hat
> 6.2. Wow! What a difference!
>
> I have tried everything (except the right thing!) to properly set up my
> routing table using the files in /etc/sysconfig and the Internet
> Configuration Wizard with no luck.
>
>           ----------------                       ---------------
>           |  Computer B  |                       | Computer A  |
>           | 192.168.0.3  |<---- 192.168.0.0 ---->| 192.168.0.1 |
>           |              |                       |             |
>           ----------------                       ---------------
>                                                         |
>                                                         |
>                                                         \/
>                                                  ---------------
>                                                  | Dial up PPP |
>                                                  |             |
>                                                  ---------------
>
> The output of route -n shows:
>
>  Kernel IP routing table
> Destination  Gateway     Genmask     Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0  0.0.0.0  255.255.255.0   U     0      0      0  eth0
> 169.254.0.0  0.0.0.0  255.255.0.0     U     0      0      0  eth0
>
> What I *think* this should be is:
>
> Destination  Gateway       Genmask     Flags Metric   Ref   Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0  192.168.0.1  255.255.255.0   U     0      0     0  eth0
>
> How do I fix this? What file(s) do I need to edit? I really need for
> these computers to talk to each other again! I also suspect this may be
> the reason that printing a simple text file causes ghostview to run
> wild.
>
> Sorry for asking such a *simple* question that I should know the answer
> to but I can find no online documentation on what each of those files
> do! To add confusion to my mind I have found 3! files named ifcfg-eth0
> as well as duplicated hosts and resolv.conf files.
>
> Thanks in advance.