Mark A. Olbert wrote:
> Thanks. I think I see what happened. Here's my routing table when things are
> not working:
> 
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
>  192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
>  66.159.230.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
>  66.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 eth1
>  0.0.0.0         66.159.230.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1
> 
> 
> And here it is when it's working:
> 
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
>  192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
>  66.159.230.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
>  0.0.0.0         66.159.230.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1
> 
> 
> So, basically, when it was munged up any request to any network in 66.0.0.0
> got routed to 0.0.0.0...which means it went nowhere. Is that correct?

Yes.  Actually the problem is between lines 3 and 4.  Sending to 66.anything 
except 66.159.230.0/24 will try to send the packet directly.  It will arp for 
the MAC address of 66.anything and not get a reply.  It will then return an 
error to the sender.

   -- Bruce
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