On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:08:18AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after connecting my two computers, and configuring them,
> I have noticed that, while I can ftp and telnet at the
> maximum speed between the two, something weird happened
> on the "client", i.e. on the one that should use the
> other as its Internet Gateway.
> (Gateway = 192.168.1.1, Client = 192.168.1.2)
>
> 1) on the client, route -n gives:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
>
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
>
> 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> eth0
>
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> eth0
>
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
> lo
>
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0
> eth0
>
> Please notice the first route: I know it should'nt be
> there, but I can't figure out how it slipped in:
> how do I remove it permanently?
> ( I also said to Linuxconf that the gateway should
> do IP routing: was it correct?)
I have no idea what to do about this problem. You might reboot and see if
it is there immediately on reboot.
On the other tentacle, are you sure it shouldn't be there? Perhaps it
should be there but is incorrect. I have:
root@charlesc # route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.3 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.64 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
where charlesc's IP address is 192.168.1.3.
>
>
> 2) After networking, starting X on the client takes
> 5/6 minutes, against 30/40 seconds it took before,
> and during this time there is ethernet traffic (i.e.
> the NIC led flashes) every ~10 seconds.
> After it is started, everything works at the usual
> speed.
>
> Are the two things connected? Why?
Probably. The reason is that X uses TCP/IP to communicate between X
servers (the video card driver, basically) and clients (the application
programs). That is why you can run a program on one machine and display on
another, a very useful facility.
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