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Re: Subnetting troubles on linux 2.0.20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr Eberhard W Lisse)
Tue Oct 1 17:54:16 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 14:16:47 +0100
To: Janice McCarthy <janice@acpub.duke.edu>
From: el@lisse.na (Dr Eberhard W Lisse)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
At 8:46 1/10/96, Janice McCarthy wrote:
>>
>> Why adding the routes in the first place? What's wrong with a default route?
>>
>
>There will (eventually) be *two* gateways on the backbone network, each
>of which will have 8 machines on other subnets. There can only be one
>default route... so then how would I route messages from the backbone to
>the other nets?
The hosts on Net A all point their default route to Gateway A
The hosts on Net B all point their default route to Gateway B
Gateway A and Gateway B each point their default routes to Gateway C
(the real Internet gateway) and a route to the net of the other Gateway
B or A respectively.
Or, which probably might be much easier, put in gated everywhere and
let them sort it out among themselves :-)-O
el
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