Even with the routes deleted, I still cannot get to my server (Win2K) 
that has the print/file share on it. I am getting the messsage 
"DESTINATION HOST UNREACHABLE".

ANy ideas on what can be causing this problem?

    -Lou

Lou Hamilton wrote:

> Tried to delete them but they still show up after a reboot.
>
> the loopback is a typo in my example. it is pointing to lo not eth0. 
> Thanks for noticing.
>
>    -Lou
>
> Jim Cunning wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Lou Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> List:
>>>
>>> I am having an issue with my local routing table on my RH7.3
>>> Workstation. I have some extra lines in my routing table that I am
>>> having difficulties removing.
>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> My 'ifconfig' is showing that I am getting an IP address from the DHCP
>>> and it is valid on my network.
>>>
>>> 'route -n', however, is showing that I have too many routes in my table
>>> and seems to be confusing the packets and sending everything to the
>>> default gateway. I do not even know where these routes came from. I
>>> never entered anything in manually. I only activated the eth0 
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> My results of '/sbin/route -n' are:
>>>
>>> Destination    Gateway     Genmask    Flags    Metric    Ref    Use
>>> Iface
>>> 0.0.0.0    192.168.1.1    255.255.255.255    UGH    0     0    0    
>>> eth0
>>> 192.168.1.0    192.168.1.1    255.255.255.0    UG    0    0    0    
>>> eth0
>>> 192.168.1.0    0.0.0.0    255.255.255.0    U     0    0    0    eth0
>>> 127.0.0.0    0.0.0.0    255.0.0.0    U          0    0    0    eth0
>>> 0.0.0.0    192.168.1.1    0.0.0.0    UG       0    0    0    eth0
>>>
>>> My new issue is getting rid of the unwanted routes (lines 1 and 2). I
>>> have tried the 'route del' command to no avail. If anyone has any ideas
>>> on a syntax that will make this work, it would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think you need to delete the first route entry, because that 
>> only
>> routes packets to host 0.0.0.0 to the DHCP router. The one you want to
>> delete is #2:
>>
>>     route del -network 192.168.1.0 gw 192.168.1.1
>>
>> should work.
>>
>> As a side note, but perhaps not part of your problem, the route for
>> 127.0.0.0 is wrong. It should NOT point to "eth0" but the "lo"
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
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