Re: Internet access.

[tgray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 3 May 2000, awilliam@whitemice.org <members@kalamazoolinux.org> wrote: 


> > Where do I find my routing table so that I may check it out and edit
> > it as needed?  (Linux-Mandrake 7.0, so it should be the same as RH)
> 
> netstat -r

Okay, here's the table.

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window 
 irtt Iface
10.6.1.97       *               255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 eth0

10.4.1.10       10.6.1.1        255.255.255.255 UGH       0 0          0 
eth0

10.6.0.0        *               255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0

127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo

default         10.6.1.1        0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

ICK!  Please excuse the horrid wrapping on that!  I added a <CR> 
between each line in an attempt to make it more readable.  I'm 
going to go onto freshmeat and linuxberg to see if I can find a 
routing table utility that makes it pretty easy.  Seems like *there's 
just gotta be one*.  
 
> >> route add -net default dev ppp0
> >> will sent all traffic I don't have a specific route for out ppp0.
> >> If I had a firewall (like I do in my office), I'd do something
> >> like: route add -net default gw firewall
> > Executing that command with the IP of my proxy in place of
> > "firewall" yields me "SIOCADDRT:  Network is unreachable"
> > Huh?  I can ping the proxy server so I know that's not it.
> 
> what is your current routing table?
> does your proxy server forward traffic?  or is it a squid/socks kind
> of proxy server?

It's WinProxy, I'm waiting for information from my colleague about 
it's behavior.

> I assume they are like Cisco routers and use whatever protocol they
> are configured to use.  You can run something like etherape or tcpdump
> to watch the raw packets and the routing protocol will make itself
> apparent.

I haven't used either of those, I'll look into them.  The breadth of the 
things I *don't* know about the most widely-used protocol on the 
internet is becoming apparent to me now.  Thanks for taking the 
time to banish some of my ignorance.

As a quick way to that information, I've asked my supervisor for the 
password to the router's config port, so I should be able to find out 
from the horse's mouth what protocol is used.

"If you don't think life is interesting,
you're not paying enough attention." me, 1987-ish.
--Tim Gray