Subject: Re: EUREKA! (pinging other segments & using external proxy = SOLVED)
To: Henry Nelson <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/10/2001 20:08:38
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:21:24PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> I hope this will be useful to other newbies.
> 
> If you're on a lan with a bunch of different physical segments, it is
> not enough to simply enter your default gateway in /etc/mygate. I hope
> someone knowledgeable will correct me if I am wrong, but it is as if you
> have to specifically tell a machine to use a gateway when it _looks_
> like there is no need to use a gateway.

If you didn't have a default gateway, how did you reach the outside ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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