On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 05:50:03PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm reading "TCP/IP Administration" by O'Reily, and have a question on > the routing table on my Debian box. It's quite simple: > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > 209.226.71.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 0.0.0.0 209.226.71.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 > > I have 2 nics in my computer. eth0 is connected to > another computer (local net), and has IP 192.168.1.2, and another one > is connected to the internet with DHCP. > > My question is: why is the local network bound to default gateway? > Shouldn't 192.168.1.0 be bound to 192.168.1.2?
The default is for addresses whose routes are not specified by the routing table. Packets destined for any computer with an IP in the 192.168.1.0 network will be sent out eth0. Everything else will go out the (default) eth1. > I suspect that I misunderstand something, since the computers are able > to comunicate. > > Any input highly appreciated, Hope this made some sense. -- David H. Silber -- http://www.orbits.com/~dhs/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] For custom software, see: http://www.SilberSoft.com/ Palm OS / Linux Documentation: http://www.orbits.com/Palm/
