Jeff Graves wrote:
> If there's no default route listed when you issue the command
> route -n, then you won't be able to ping out. If you type route you
> should get 4 entries (that's what I get on all the default install
> boxes i have):
>
> Dest Gate Mask Flags Int
> 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH Eth0
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U Eth0
> 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U lo
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG Eth0
>
> Where 192.168.1.2 would be the linux box and 192.168.1.1 is the
> router. If these aren't in there it could explain why you can't ping
> out but do receive pings (it can't find any a route to the address
> to ping, but the windoze box has it's own routing table and can find
> the linux box). Of course you may have links to multiple networks
> and other things so it could look different. But the point is, to
> get to the internet you need the default route and to ping other
> machines on the subnet you need the 192.168.1.0 entry.
He should be able to ping the local windows boxes without the default
route right? Of course this assumes the route exist for the interface
and the "local" network. The default would only be used if a host not in
the local net was accessed. Then the default route with the address of
the router as the gateway would be needed. I figure that there is
something else going on if he cannot see the local net boxes.
Bret
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