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In article <4v9mrd$hs6@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>,
Robert Paul Pham <zzppham@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> wrote:
>terry@baldric.no.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dawson) writes:
>
>>: I had thought this too actually, but what I find was that as soon as I 
>>: setup a default route to my ISP (I have a static IPaddress), my 
>>: home network stopped working.

I remember being annoyed by this for a while, especially since the machine
with the modem has no keyboard or video card (or monitor or floppy
drives)...

>>It that happened then you didn't have your network route in place.
>>Each host should have a network route and a default route.

>
>I would really appreciate some more elaborate wisdom :-).
>Being a tcp/ip newbie I tried everything, but as soon as a 
>default route is setup to my ISP, all packets from other machines just 
>seems to head straight down sl0 and into oblivion. Do you mean I can 
>setup more than one default route on the Linux box?

The default route is only used when there are no other routes which match.
So you want to have a route which points to your local network.

>I would really appreciate an example of an /sbin/route command to do 
>this, for the following machines 192.168.100.100 & 192.168.100.101.

/sbin/route add -net 192.168.100.0 eth0

should do. (Anything to go to 192.168.100.x will be sent to eth0, otherwise
it'll go out the default route...)

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