[1759] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Static vs dynamic routing from ISP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Longyear)
Wed Jan 31 19:23:00 1996
To: cjwoods@paladin.com (Chris Woods)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:25:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Al Longyear" <longyear@sii.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960130223447.5161A-100000@bifrost.paladin.com> from "Chris Woods" at Jan 30, 96 10:36:28 pm
Chris Woods wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Al Longyear wrote:
>
> > Yes you can. It is not so neat of a trick.
> >
> > It is called having six "host" routes; you know, the ones WITHOUT the -net
> > option.
>
> A kludged "network". :-)
You should go back and re-examine your original message again. :-)
It basically asked "how would you make a route for six specific IP
addresses?" Now you too know how it is accomplished.
> Then each of the hosts would also need static
> host entries for each of the others in order for it to look like a LAN to
> any of the hosts.
You forgot about "ICMP redirect" frames and what they do.
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