[ale] router not on the network?

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Stephan Uphoff writes:
 > 
 > Try:
 > 	route add -host x.y.z.t dev eth0
 > 	route add default gw  x.y.z.t

Yow!  That did the trick.  Thanks a million.

Is this a standard network setup?  No one I've talked to has ever
heard of a setup like it.

Thanks again,

Michael

 > 
 > > I recently tried to put a linux box on a network that had a
 > > configuration I'd never seen.  It was one of those "it worked fine for
 > > my Windows laptop, why doesn't it work for Linux" things.
 > > 
 > > The setup:
 > > 
 > > IP address: a.b.c.d
 > > netmask:    a.b.c.0
 > > gateway:    x.y.z.t
 > > 
 > > So the gateway was not on the lan.  I gather there is some firewall
 > > that is doing some kind of transparent NAT on onto the internet.
 > > /sbin/route would not let me configure a gateway that can't be
 > > reached, so I was hosed.
 > > 
 > > Have you ever seen this setup before?  Someone mumbled that there was
 > > a networking patch for this, but I'd never heard of it.
 > > 
 > > Now Linux looks bad in this guy's eye because it can't do what Windows
 > > did.  I'm guessing that this is some MS extension to IP, but I really
 > > don't know.
 > > 
 > > Thanks in advance,
 > > 
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 > > ZapMedia
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