Hi there,
I was failing to connect a linux box with a Win95 PC. Mike pointed to
me that the routing table was erroneous and how to correct it (see
below). Thanks Mike!
I'd add just one thing in case it's useful to someone: I didn't know
which file to edit to make the change in routing permanent. I found
that with RH 5.0 the netcfg utility would provide an X interface
allowing me to remove the bad route. The change does stay across
sessions.
Mike wrote (1.10.1998):
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> > 192.168.1.0 phat.corcise 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 4 eth0
>
> Ah. That's wrong. This is telling phat that any packets going to
> 192.168.1.* should be routed to phat.corcise via eth0. That ain't gonna
> work - packets will just loop as it sends everything back to itself.
> Try either removing this entry (preferably) or changeing it to read
> 192.168.1.0 admin.corcise 255.255.255.0 etc
>
> Do this with
> route del 192.168.1.0 (I think this should work, but it might remove the
> next entry as well, in which case you need to do
> route add -net 192.168.1.0 eth0)
Thanks again to all,
Jacques Du PAsquier
