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> From: Kevin Breit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 5:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Masq] Slowdown in service
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> I am currently running a masqing box on a Pentium 75
> with 16MB ram, and a
> 64MB swap partition. Before we hooked my dad's computer up behind the
> gateway, it downloaded at 75KB once (should go faster).
> Anyways, after I
> setup his computer behind the gateway, it only downloads a maximum of
> 30KB/sec. Downloading pages is noticably slower as well.
> Some guy recommended I try to do a 'route add default
> eth0'. He figured it
That syntax is wrong, and shouldn't help anything.
> took long because the system doesn't know where to default it
> to. When I do
> that, my dad's computer won't work behind the gateway. I
> then did a route
> delete default eth0, and then the box being masqed worked
> again. I did a
> route add default gw eth0 and that resulted in:
> eth0: Unknown Host
Route is expecting an IP address here, not an interface. Your default route
should be the router at the other end of your internet connection, for the
MASQ box. The default gateway for the internal (MASQ'ed) machines should be
the IP address of the inside of your MASQ box.
Greg
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