[lug] routing

Michael J. Pedersen marvin at keepthetouch.org
Fri Jan 12 13:24:08 MST 2001


On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:14:26PM -0600, charles at lunarmedia.net wrote:
> 
> I'm not quite following what you mean by the 192.168 address is unable to
> match on that network. Linux should be able to add a route with any subnet
> mask all the way through /32 for routing purposes. If the local lan is
> 192.168.0/24 with a static route for 172.16/16 and a gateway of
> 192.168.0.4, I don't see what additional configuration would be required
> for the packet to exit the network correctly towards 172.16/16.
> 
> I think however that the problem he may run into is for the return path of
> the packet. Even though you he may have his local lan configured
> correctly, to have packets destined for 172.16/16 to be sent to
> 192.168.0.4, all the machines on the 172.16/16 network, will need to be
> configured such that in order to reach 192.168.0/24, they will need to
> have a route set to hit the 172.16/16 of his dual interface machine.
> 
> If you could elaborate on how the netmask would prevent this routing from
> occurring, I'd appreciate it.

Simply put, it was a misread. I thought he was trying to set the default
gateway for machines in the 172 network to use 192.168.0.4 as the gateway.

Please pardon, it's turning out to be a very long week.

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