Re: basic tcp ip command (route) acts weirdly!!
On 27 January 2004, Sony Lloyd [mailto:comorosislands@yahoo.c wrote:
> This is strange ->
> I just type:
> route add -host 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 and it gives me
> error "Usager: inet_route [-vF ] add {host|-net} target [gw GW] [metric
> M] [netmask N] [mss MSS] ..etc "
> But if I do "inet_route add -host 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
> eth0 " I get "bash:inet_route command not found"
> This is weird, since route is on my system (I have /sbin/route and
> /proc/net/route) and
> even if I use the complete path for the "route" command (/sbin/route
> add -host 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0), I still get the
> error "Usager: inet_route [-vF ] add {host|-net} target [gw GW] [metric
> M] [netmask N] [mss MSS] ..etc "
> wow...I could not believe that after 10 years in tcp ip networking!
> Debian Linux 1.3.1
>
tried your CL on woody 3.0r1 and route 1.98 echoed the following error:-
route: netmask 255.255.255.0 doesn't make sense with host route.
try:-
route add -host 192.168.1.2 dev eth0
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