[plug] Query about gateway computer settings

[Bret Busby]

On 25/03/2011, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/03/2011, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 11:48 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On 25/03/2011, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On 25/03/2011, Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>> >> routing?
>>> >>
>>> >> "type route -n"
>>> >>
>>> >> BillK
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > ~# route -n
>>> > Kernel IP routing table
>>> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref
>>> > Use
>>> > Iface
>>> > 192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0
>>> > 0
>>> > eth0
>>> > 10.1.1.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0
>>> > 0
>>> > eth1
>>> > 0.0.0.0         10.1.1.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0
>>> > 0
>>> > eth1
>>> >
>>>
>>> Sorry - if not clear, that is from the gateway computer.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What's it look like from the workstation?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Richard Meyer
>>
>
> :~# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> eth0
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
> eth0
>
>
> And, to make this amusing ("It would be funny, if it wasn't such a
> problem..."), whilst I cannot go out past the 10.1.1.3 NIC (the NIC on
> the gateway computer, that interfaces to the router/modem), on the
> 10.1.1.x DHCP LAN, that connects via the modem/router to the gateway
> computer, is this computer that I am currently using for Internet
> access, from which I can ssh into the gateway computer, via the
> 10.1.1.3 address, from which I can telnet into my workstation on the
> 192.168.2.x LAN.
>
.
.
.

Ah, that should have been;

> And, to make this amusing ("It would be funny, if it wasn't such a
> problem..."), whilst I cannot go out past the 10.1.1.3 NIC (the NIC on
> the gateway computer, that interfaces to the router/modem),

from my workstation,

 on the
> 10.1.1.x DHCP LAN, that connects via the modem/router to the gateway
> computer, is this computer that I am currently using for Internet
> access, from which I can ssh into the gateway computer, via the
> 10.1.1.3 address, from which I can telnet into my workstation on the
> 192.168.2.x LAN.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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