Connect Linux box to the Internet via Linksys WRT54G router

Thu Mar 24 16:16:44 UTC 2005

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:39:09AM -0500, Allen Taylor wrote:
> 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)

That too would be wrong.  You have a route for the local subnet
(192.168.1.0/24 in this case) and you have a default route (0.0.0.0)
which sets the gateway address for going anywhere else.  Traffic for the
local subnet should never be routed through a gateway (since the gateway
is for getting to subnets other than the local ones).

Lennart Sorensen
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