On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, drew wymore wrote: > > > This looks like a boogered route but I could be wrong. I've seen people > > use some funky weird gateways. > > > > 0.0.0.0 192.168.55.4 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 > eth0 > > Drew, > > As far as my limited memory recalls, the name 'default' has always been > associated with 0.0.0.0. It's the same on all machines here. > > I'll need to wait for time to look at the WAP with my notebook; right now > I've too much to do of higher priority. I suspect that I changed the > LinkSys > from a static IP address for the laptop to dhcp with a fixed address to > assign. If that's what I did then I can see how it screwed up what used to > work. > > It'll be a couple of days or so before I get back to this thread; > business > takes precedence. Stay tuned ... > > Thanks, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Rich, The name isn't the issue and 0.0.0.0 is just a default routing statement basically telling any packets not destined for a more specific route to head to 192.168.55.4 as the gateway which then will further route it to where it needs to go. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
