On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jeff Graves wrote:
> If there's no default route listed when you issue the command
> route -n, then you won't be able to ping out. If you type route you
> should get 4 entries (that's what I get on all the default install
> boxes i have):
>
> Dest Gate Mask Flags Int
> 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH Eth0
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U Eth0
> 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U lo
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG Eth0
>
> Where 192.168.1.2 would be the linux box and 192.168.1.1 is the
> router. If these aren't in there it could explain why you can't ping
> out but do receive pings (it can't find any a route to the address
> to ping, but the windoze box has it's own routing table and can find
> the linux box). Of course you may have links to multiple networks
> and other things so it could look different. But the point is, to
> get to the internet you need the default route and to ping other
> machines on the subnet you need the 192.168.1.0 entry.
>
Yeah. I only get the top three when I type "route." For some reason,
even though it KNOWS there's a default route, it's not showing it...
*shrug*
John
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