Re: [tlug] routing question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Botond" == Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com> writes:

    Botond> siliconium:~# route -n
    Botond> Kernel IP routing table
    Botond> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags  Iface
    Botond> 61.120.182.137  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH     ppp0

WTF?  There's no way to get here from there.  Unless you have a
61.x.x.x IP address for your siliconium?

    Botond> 192.168.129.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U      eth0

This is the subnet that works.

    Botond> 192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U      eth0
    Botond> 192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U      eth0

This is useless, even though it's listed twice.

    Botond> 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U      eth0

I haven't a friend in the world.

    Botond> 0.0.0.0         61.120.182.137  0.0.0.0         UG     ppp0

And this is the black hole which is sucking down all your ICMP ECHOs
to non-localnet hosts unless I miss my guess.

I'm sorry, I'm on a slow line and I may be missing something by not
switching back to the rest of the thread, but AFAICT unless you do
something about those Genmasks (they need to be /16 for those device
routes to work) and configure a gateway with the right localnet
address you're not going anywhere.

    Botond> [Sorry for the linebreaks, but that's obligatory on the
    Botond> list otherwise I will get flamed...]

Excuse me?  I see no problems.... ;-)

    Botond> Uva, I know that plugging the Z into the server/firewall
    Botond> would be the easiest, unfortunately I have put it into the
    Botond> farthest place and is not really convenient.

AFAICT the Z's networking just likes to hang out in high society.  For
example, mine (an SLC700) snubs the cheap Corega wireless LAN I have at
home, while it gets along famously with the IBM that cost 5 times as
much and comes with three fewer channels (well, I did get two PCMCIA
cards) with it.

So buy a cray to use as your home router and I bet everything will be
fine.  :-)

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