On 7/28/06, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was going through google to see if its possible for different networks to talk to each other directly ( from your observation that you could ping a foreign gateway). I came across the link that was posted in the earlier mail. Your
I think you could reach any machine if it is directly connected to you (through a hub/switch/cross-connection) and you have an explicit route to it.
windows. As a study you could carry a simple networking enabled laptop ( without any dialers) to the same place and plug in the lan cable and give the same settings to see if you can still ping a foreign gateway. All this is very intriguing.
That's what I did in a way. I set up basic networking on the ubuntu box and test. The only additional setting was to set up a direct route to the gateway (route add -host ...). There is no extra settings done by the dialer. Regards, Siddhesh -- http://siddhesh.tk -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
