Re: Blank Routes Table

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This route makes no sense.  "In order to get to IP addresses that start 
with 192.168.0, send your packets to 192.168.0.1". You can't send 
packets to 192.168.0.1 if you don't know how to get to the 192.168.0 
subnet!

That's like asking directions...  "How do I get to Bakersfield?  Well, 
first drive to Main St. in Bakersfield, then go left."  You CAN'T get to 
Main St. in Bakersfield, because you don't know how to get to Bakersfield!

Most likely, however, you already live in Bakersfield, and what you 
really want is to know how to get to the Interstate that will take you 
to the rest of the world.

In other words, your computer is *already on* the 192.168.0 subnet. 
(You'll know this from the IP address of your network interface, and 
it's subnet mask...)  So you don't need a route that tells you how to 
get to the 192.168.0 subnet, you're ALREADY THERE...   what you really 
need is to know how to get to everywhere else.

So you don't want to add a route to 192.168.0 -- you want to add a 
DEFAULT route -- a route that's used for any address that your system 
doesn't already know how to get to.

So this is what you want to do (prompt the command for additional 
parameters)
ADDTCPRTE RTEDEST(*DFTROUTE) SUBNETMASK(*NONE) NEXTHOP('192.168.0.1')

This says "to get to all subnets besides my own -- or those that I've 
already been routes to -- send packets to the router at 192.168.0.1" and 
that's what I THINK you're looking for.

However, I do agree with Simon.  Do *not* simply assume that 192.168.0.1 
is your router.  A router can have any IP address (on the subnet) it 
doesn't have to be the first address.  Ask whomever set up your network 
for the correct address -- unless you have a good reason to believe that 
it's 192.168.0.1.  Whatever the correct router address is, that's the 
address you need to use with the ADDTCPRTE command, above.


Mike wrote:
> I can only assume that the default gateway is
> 192.168.0.1. Would the values be:
>
> Route            Subnet           Next             Preferred
> Destination      Mask             Hop              Interface
> 192.168.0.0      255.255.255.0    192.168.0.1