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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Jay E. Erickson" <erickson@server.gf-net.af.mil>
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP config help?
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On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Jay E. Erickson wrote:

> > Can you elaborate on this?  What happens?  What errors do you get?
> 
> I don't get any errors. I just can't make any connections to or from
>  the box.
> I pointed a netcat probe at it and all the TCP connections time out
> but the UDP connections opened up.

What do you get when you try to ping it?

> > > The box was running Linux so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
> > > I can't make any kind of TCP connections with the box, but when I 
> > > do a >netstat -r it manages to lookup the names of the router and my 
> > > other Linux box. 
> > 
> > Hm.....
> > 
> Does anyone know what the /24 means on the first link line ?

I believe it has to do with the subnet.  I think it means that the
addresses 0-24 should be routed here.  

> > > routerflags=-q
> > 
> > Try setting this to
> > 
> > routerflags=NO
> > 
> > Routed has been known to cause odd problems.
> > 
> should I run gated??

Is this machine a gateway between two networks?  If not, then no.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major