[ale] router not on the network?

[Stephan Uphoff]

Try:
	route add -host x.y.z.t dev eth0
	route add default gw  x.y.z.t



> 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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