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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: My routing table...how bad is it? Date: 23 Apr 1997 21:50:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5jm07a$4bf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.970413223313.18259A-100000-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> <5iu6k2$26m@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.A32.3.91.970421101543.14617C-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39620 "Keith W." <kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net> wrote: > > Once the packets arrive at this interface, `your box' will notice that > > they aren't destined for itself, and will pass them on to > > 204.244.99.76 (since the default route is the only applicable route > > for the destination address). > > But then `your box' would have to be setup as a gateway to properly route > the packests then...would it not? Yep. That's the ``gateway='' option in /etc/sysconfig. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)