David Brett wrote:
> The router has two routes out of it. one to the internet and the second to
> your network. Any route it does not know about it will drop or send to
> the default route, if it exists. Since the internet is a larger network
> the default is the internet and your network not visible to the router is
> defined. This is rhe reason for telling the router about your network
> behind the linux firewall box.
That seems reasonable.... Thanks for explaining it.
But, it seems that my ISP has solved my problem in another way, which is the
best solution for me: They assigned another small ip network for the CISCO and
my Linux's eth0. I guess things got too complicated for them too :) And yes,
everything is working now fine! I'm very happy as I've been wrestling with
this problem all too long.
> this is how cisco has designed its routers to work. The structure of the
> command is ip network with mask and how to get too it by single ip
> address. The reasoning is the router will drop any packets it doesn't
I thought I should study how CISCO routers work for future use and I've got
now one "spare" router in office. Hopefully no more CISCO related questions
for you (and this is not the place for them either, I know).
Thanks for everybody who (tried to and) helped me with this problem!!!
Cheers,
Peter
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