Connect Linux box to the Internet via Linksys WRT54G router

[Allen Taylor]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:45:43AM +0530, Akshay Lamba wrote:
> Your routing table has a small error. Run the following 2 commands:
> 
> $ route del 192.168.1.0
> $ route add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1
> 
> Regards,
> Akshay
>
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Michael Yang 
> [snip]
>   [root at localhost michael]# ifconfig
>   eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:AF:CC:45:50
>             inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> [snip]
 
>   [root at localhost michael]# route -n
>   Kernel IP routing table
>   Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
>   192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
>   0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

Hi Akshay (And Michael)

Perhaps I'm confused, but shouldn't the second command be:

$ route add 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1
       (was 192.168.0.0)

Confusingly yours,
Allen
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