[plug] Routing tables for hybrid Linux & Windows network

[Mark Dixon]

 > Just turn on "Internet sharing", fiddle fart around with it a bit
 > and bobs your uncle. Not as easy as piping "1" into the routing ,
 > but its all there.

I have tried "fiddle farting" the WinXP wizards for network sharing but 
sadly was unable to get a combination that worked.  My understanding is 
that the wizards are ok for getting you as far as a network like my 
original one diagrammed at http://anysize.com/anynet.png but to add the 
additional network, the PC called Catbert in the diagram needs to be 
manually configured.  I think the correct tool is the route command, 
entered at the command line and somewhat like the Unix route command.  I 
would like some suggestions on correct route commands to issue at the 
four hosts labeled Catbert, Asok, Dilbert and Dogbert in the diagram. 
Here is the existing routing table at Catbert.  I think it is actually 
pretty close to what I need, but I'm not sure what might be missing:

Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface
           0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      192.168.1.1   192.168.1.103
         127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1
       192.168.1.0    255.255.255.0    192.168.1.103   192.168.1.103
     192.168.1.103  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1
     192.168.1.255  255.255.255.255    192.168.1.103   192.168.1.103
       192.168.2.0    255.255.255.0      192.168.2.1     192.168.2.1
       192.168.2.1  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1
     192.168.2.255  255.255.255.255      192.168.2.1     192.168.2.1
         224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0    192.168.1.103   192.168.1.103
         224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0      192.168.2.1     192.168.2.1
   255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255    192.168.1.103   192.168.1.103
   255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255      192.168.2.1     192.168.2.1
Default Gateway:       192.168.1.1

Any suggestions on additional routes, or what route commands I should 
issue at the other hosts?


Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> Its definately in XP home. Its pretty limited. From memory it enforces a
> NAT subnet on the routing for 192.168.0.1 (making it a bit clumsy to nest
> NAT's although I've done this before).
> 
> Just turn on "Internet sharing", fiddle fart around with it a bit  and
> bobs your uncle. Not as easy as piping "1" into the routing , but its all there.
> 
> --
>  I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to
> town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.
> - Jack Handey (And now, Deep thoughts)
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Mark Dixon wrote:
> 
> 
>>ML: "Definitely not XP Home."
>>
>>The WinXP in this exercise is the Pro version, not Home.  So networking
>>is supposed to be a bit less restrictive.  WinXP does have a network
>>bridging service that can be set up with a networking wizard.  But given
>>that the operative word is "bridge" I expect this wizard expects all
>>hosts to be on the same network.  I would prefer to route rather than
>>bridge and I am not aware of any licencing limitation in WinXP Pro that
>>would prohibit that.
>>
>>Matthew Lambie wrote:
>>
>>>I didn't think Windows XP could route between interfaces? I don't use
>>>Windows day-to-day, but it's a capability that I'd expect in the server
>>>version of Windows, and certainly not the desktop edition. Definitely
>>>not XP Home.