--- Jake r Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't enter a gateway for the NIC. That > connection > > should still work. > True, I realize this, but what if there is a > gateway(possibly needed) > for the lan(nic). I havent ran into this because I > have never hooked up > to a large network, only my very small home network > (which has no > gateway..). But I could run into this next year > when i transfer to a university.
Two things I can say: - If you've got full internet connectivity through the university (or any other) LAN, you don't need to be dialing up. - If you need to set a "gateway" on the LAN to another network (not the internet) you wouldn't do that with a gateway (which is your route to everything), you would do that with a route, which you can set in linuxconf and probably any of the other network config tools. Say the other network was 10.x.x.x and you're on 192.168.x.x with a "gateway" of 192.168.0.1, you would set a route with destination 10.0.0.0 and gateway (for that route) of 192.168.0.1. You wouldn't set your default gateway to that, since that goes on the route for 0.0.0.0, which is everything (the internet when you're dialed up). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
