Re: Gateway setup

[Antonio Galea <ant9000 netwise it>]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Daniel Negron/KBE wrote:

> /sbin/route add --net 192.168.10.0 255.255.0.0 gw eth1 (ext card)
> NET/ROM: this needs to be written
> 

Just translating your command into a form acceptable by 'route', I'd do

route add -net 192.168.10.0/16 eth1

I would expect a netmask of 255.255.255.0 (or /24), and not the one you've
written: otherwise you will be adding a route for network 192.168.0.0/16,
probably not what you want.

If what you need is a _default_gateway_, as the 'gw' on your command line
suggests, you'd better go with

route add -host gateway_machine eth1
route add default gw gateway_machine

where gateway_machine is the computer/router/whatever you will use as
external gateway.

Hope it helps!

Ant9000


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