Connect Linux box to the Internet via Linksys WRT54G router

Akshay Lamba alamba-zCpon8wu3duE88LZEN7QYV6hYfS7NtTn at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 24 18:30:24 UTC 2005


> 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

Lsorense is absolutely right. Can't believe I missed that one. Thanks a ton.
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