thank you michael. Forgot about iptables and blocking them which is essentially the same effect. I will give that a try. Thanks!
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 03:10:09PM -0700, VY wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. I am a networking novice so maybe there is > something > > that I am doing wrong. > > I just did this: > > > > sudo route del -net 98.171.145.0/24 dev eth0 > > > > and got back > > > > SIOCDELRT: No such process > > > > > > I do not have a static route to that subnet in my routing table but I > want > > to cut off traffic to any of the 255 hosts in that subnet for a short > period > > of time -- hence I want to delete access to that network. > > Am I using the wrong tool? > > Yep, you can't delete a route that isn't there. > > You could add a route for that network that points to an address which > can't > route to the network, for example: > > sudo route add -net 98.171.145.0/24 gw 127.0.0.1 > > or if you just need it for the current host you could add an iptables rule > to > block traffic: > > sudo iptables -I OUTPUT -d 98.171.145.0/24 -j DROP > > if the current host is your router then the iptables rule would be: > > sudo iptables -I FORWARD -d 98.171.145.0/24 -j DROP > > Note: my iptables examples are horribly simplified things. > > > -- > Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon > Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 > Be appropriate && Follow your curiosity > http://www.jamhome.us/ > The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: > Knucklehead: "Knock, knock" > Pee Wee: "Who's there?" > Knucklehead: "Little ol' lady." > Pee Wee: "Liddle ol' lady who?" > Knucklehead: "I didn't know you could yodel" > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
