On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Aaron Joyner wrote: > > > meeting, and the setup really is quite odd. It seems that his static > > IP gets assigned to the local interface, and a static route to a MAC > > address gets assigned to the ethernet card - although I don't quite > > know how DHCP is setting that up.
I don't know how to set a route to a MAC address from the command line. Just tried this (didn't work) to set a route to a MAC address my_machine:# arp -s IP_of_default_gw MAC_address_of_modem when I use the IP of the default gw (which is in a different network to any IPs on the machine), I get the error message "network is unreachable" and the arp table is not updated. If instead I substitute an IP in a network that is routable from my machine, the arp table is updated. I'm a bit flummoxed here. Assuming the modem is acting as a bridge and the IPs on the other side are in different networks to the IPs on your side, you still can't route to them, even if you know the MAC address of the bridge? Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
