Re: [Sheflug] Tenuous Connection - More stupid newbie problems

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

Tenuous Connection - More stupid newbie problems>The first part of this may
well have something to do with your routing. I had serious trouble getting
my >linux box to see anything else on the internet because the default route
pointed down my network card, >and so anything what wasn't on my local
network wasn't ever found. Having bodged a fix to this(stuck >a "route del
default" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local) I then managed to use the internet as well
as in windows. The >second problem however I've got no idea about.

:) Default route pretty much should never point at an internal network, tut
tut ;)) Give a network card an ip address, a net mask, and that's about it.
All the machines that need to talk to each other need to be on the same
subnet, otherwise they can't talk to each other (yes, I *know* this isn't
100% true, but it's 99.999% true for most values of true). Won't need any
routes. Then you can leave wvdial / whatever to route add default gw to it's
heart content when your modem comes up. That way, both your internal net and
the internet are both accessible when the modem turns on ;))

Cheers,

Alex.

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