[PLUG] Unidirectional Network Commection

[drew wymore]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, drew wymore wrote:
>
> > This looks like a boogered route but I could be wrong. I've seen people
> > use some funky weird gateways.
> >
> > 0.0.0.0         192.168.55.4    0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0
> eth0
>
> Drew,
>
>   As far as my limited memory recalls, the name 'default' has always been
> associated with 0.0.0.0. It's the same on all machines here.
>
>   I'll need to wait for time to look at the WAP with my notebook; right now
> I've too much to do of higher priority. I suspect that I changed the
> LinkSys
> from a static IP address for the laptop to dhcp with a fixed address to
> assign. If that's what I did then I can see how it screwed up what used to
> work.
>
>   It'll be a couple of days or so before I get back to this thread;
> business
> takes precedence. Stay tuned ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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Rich,
The name isn't the issue and 0.0.0.0 is just a default routing statement
basically telling any packets not destined for a more specific route to head
to 192.168.55.4 as the gateway which then will further route it to where it
needs to go.


Drew-