Jochen Schulz on 25/01/10 16:28, wrote:
Adam Hardy:Jochen Schulz on 25/01/10 14:46, wrote:# route add -host 192.168.2.253 eth0OK grand, with that route cmd, I can access the printer server.One more question - where should I put this in the gateway's networking setup to make it permanent?AFAICT, there's no special mechanism for static routes. But you can add them to /etc/network/interfaces like this: iface eth0 inet dhcp … up route add -host 192.168.2.253 eth0 down route del -host 192.168.2.253 eth0
If I said: route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 then all IP addresses from 1 to 255 would be routed, according to man.I saw that using the -host option causes the routing table to set up a route with the netmask 255.255.255.255 - not quite sure of the significance of that though. Is that sensible though?