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<DIV>G'day...</DIV>
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<DIV>Your problem stems from your route add command below, which is largely
either wrong or redundant.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> route add default gw X.Y.Z.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
eth0<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr>You should just do a: 'route add default gw X.Y.Z.1' plain and
simple.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>The routing can figure out that its on eth0 because its must be a
host you already have a route to, and your netmask of 255.255.255.0 is actually
only allowing it to route addresses from 0.0.0.0-0.0.0.255.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>The actual netmask for the default route (if you _REALLY_ feel you
must put it in) is 0.0.0.0, which means 'no bits in the address have to match'
which is what you want for a default route!</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>...John...</DIV></FONT></TT>
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