Hm. Your post seems off-topic to me, but I could be wrong. If your cousin uses an old Storm-Linux CD for a coaster then probably anything you posted would be on topic in this list :-)
But seriously, the problem is that you're trying to use a router that isn't on the host's network. You can't do this. If your host has a single NIC with a single address, it can only talk directly to nodes on the same network as its address. The solution is to leave your hosts' default router set to 10.10.8.254, and add a static route to 10.10.8.254's routing table to forward all packets from your host straight to 10.10.6.1. Regards, Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Lupa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:17 AM Subject: simple routing question I have the feeling that I just can't do what I want, but I figured I'd ask to be sure... I have a host with a static IP in the 10.10.8.* network. The router for that network is 10.10.8.254. There is another router 10.10.6.1, which can be reached through 10.10.8.254. What I would like to do is: route add -net 10.0.0.0/8 gw 10.10.8.254 route add -host 10.10.6.1 gw 10.10.8.254 route add default gw 10.10.6.1 But every time I attempt to add that default route it gives me a "Network Unreachable" error. Thoughts? -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available from http://lupavista.jamdata.net/gpg.asc ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lament 1750: "If I only had a radioactive decay source and a fast free-running oscillator..."