Adam Hardy: > > If I said: > > route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > > then all IP addresses from 1 to 255 would be routed, according to man.
True. > I saw that using the -host option causes the routing table to set up a > route with the netmask 255.255.255.255 - not quite sure of the > significance of that though. Is that sensible though? If you have just this one device with an IP address in 192.168.2.0/24, then a host route will work. If you have several devices, you could either go the braindead route (no pun intended) and add a host route for all of them or use a network route like the one you proposed. J. -- If I won the lottery I would keep all the money and wallpaper my house with it. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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