How to get in through a router

[beartooth]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:58:50 -0700, Longman, Bill wrote:
 
> This means that the machine you are on has no idea how to get to that host.
> This probably means you need to add a default route to your machine. You
> didn't tell us the topology, so it's really hard to tell you what to do
> here, chief. If they are all on the same hub, they should all have the same
> IP address range if they are all set up to use DHCP. No route to host would
> be a most distressing error message if they are all on the same LAN and are
> all using DHCP and are all using the same default router. There would be
> something very wrong here if this were the case.
> 
> In any event, this means that the FC1 machine has an IP address that is
> outside the iBook's IP network.
> 
> You need to use the "route" command to show the current routes on both
> machines. You also need to use the "ifconfig" command to show the interface
> settings on both machines. That's the first step, I'd say.

OK; I sent that to my usenet email account (the one that shows here, which
isn't my main one for other email), one of whose virtues is that I can
print it from my wife's desktop downstairs as well as up here -- lotsa
reasons to get a LAN set up -- and will try your sugestions tomorrow, then
report. Many many thanks!

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