routing question

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:16 -0500, Douglas Frank wrote:
> I'm unable to reach local networks from the new fc3 box, that I've never 
> had trouble with using other unixes (or Slackware for that matter). 
> It's been my experience that simply kicking off routed or gated was all 
> it took to make the world accessible.  FC3 is different!
> 
> We have several networks here at work and my question is, how do I set 
> up the routing table to reach them?  Example:
> 
> 16.140.160/24  <-- fc3 box is on this one
> 16.47.32/24
> 16.32.176/24
> ..several others..
> 
> Here's the output of route(8):
> 
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination  Gateway        Genmask       Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 16.140.128.0 16.140.128.238 255.255.255.0 UG    0      0     0 eth0
> 16.140.128.0 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
> 0.0.0.0      16.140.128.238 0.0.0.0       UG    0      0     0 eth0
> 
> eth0 is 16.140.128.238
> 
> I can reach anything on the home network, 16.140.128, but nothing on any 
> of the others.  What have I screwed up/left out?

What is the address of the router you should use to connect to these
other networks? Since you don't have a default route or gateway set up,
there is no way to know where to send packets for any network other than
your home network.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>