Routing table question

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Mar 8 00:27:35 UTC 2006


John Warner wrote:
> Total newb' here, I have a routing issue on my Fedora 4 box. I can see
> (read ping etc) IPs on my LAN. I cannot ping off the LAN. The gateway
> for eth0 is listed as 192.168.1.1 (which is correct, that is the address
> of my Linksys DD-WRT router to the DSL Modem). The rest of the LAN is
> properly configured and can see the Internet etc just fine. I read the
> Man Page for route and it does not really help me. I suspect my issue is
> my default setting on my routing table. Less the specific answer (how
> will I ever learn) can some one point me to the complete idiots guide to
> setting up his routing table in Linux. Ideally it would be oriented to
> the home networker.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> John Warner
> 
> 
What does "route -n" show? Also, how are you configuring eth0? If
you are using DHCP, then everything should be set properly by the
DHCP server, unless you have over ridden them. It is hard to tell
from your post, but it sounds like you do not have a proper default
route.

Mikkel
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