Re: Gateway settings
> In a small office network of five NT machines and one Linux box, what should
> the gateway be set to?
to the host with connection to an external network connection, if any.
> The IP block is 198.168.1.x, the netmask is 255.255.255.0 and the WINS/DHCP
> server is on 192.168.1.10 All the NT machines function well with no
> gateway setting, but the Linux box demands one.
strange. is there a route like
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
defined? if you need a gateway box (e.g. for internet dial-in), then you
have to add
default gateway-ip 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
hope, that helps a bit.
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