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Re: Problem connecting to gateway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eduardo Augusto Trettel)
Tue Sep 19 20:36:45 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 14:00:16 -0300
From: Eduardo Augusto Trettel <eduardo@fee.unicamp.br>
To: cujc8@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
John Corey R <cujc8@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> wrotes:
>
> I'm having connecting a group of computers to the outside gateway.
>
> Here's the story. I've got a bunch of puters with token ring cards.
> Finally got the kernel to recognize em. And I can talk to other
> computers on the net fine. But I cannot seem to connect to the outside
> world.
>
> The cards work in msdos, so I tried the gateway the dos programs use.
> Got Network unreachable. So, I read through the Ethernet HOWTO. It
> mentioned to use .1 at then end of the IP. I tried that, but it wasn't
> going to the outside world :(.
>
> So, I'm stuck. Anyone have any other ideas I can try to get these puters
> to go outside??
>
> thanx
>
>
John:
This sounds like a problem in the configuration of your gateway.
In order to get talking to the world, each machine in your net must know
the IP of your gateway as the default route. The gateway must also have
some way to find its default route. This can be made easily just staticaly
declaring the routes using '/sbin/route'. A better choice, however, is
run some kind of dinamic router, like 'routed' or 'gated'. I suggest the
latter.
Best regards.
E. Trettel
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John:
This sounds like a problem in the configuration of your gateway.
In order to get talking to the world, each machine in your net must know
the IP of your gateway as the default route. The gateway must also have
some way to find its default route. This can be made easily just staticaly
declaring the routes using '/sbin/route'. A better choice, however, is
run some kind of dinamic router, like 'routed' or 'gated'. I suggest the
latter.
Best regards.
E. Trettel
