Re: Routing table question

["David H. Silber" <dhs@orbits.com>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:07:55PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> "David H. Silber" <dhs@orbits.com> writes:
> > The default is for addresses whose routes are not specified by the
> > routing table.  Packets destined for any computer with an IP in the
> > 192.168.1.0 network will be sent out eth0.  Everything else will go
> > out the (default) eth1.
> 
> David, thanks for your reply.
> 
> I still don't understand something. Doesn't the line:
> 
> 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
> 
> mean "send everything addressed to IP's 192.168.1.* through default
> gateway"? But this way the kernel will be sending communications for
> 192.168.1.1 through 209.226.71.1. So I must be wrong in translating
> the line above...

It means "send everything addressed to IP's 192.168.1.* through the
specified interface", in this case, eth0.

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