simple ping; pinging 101

[Kevin J. Cummings]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On 7/6/05, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> ...
> 
>>The real question here is what are you trying to do? 
> 
> ...
> 
> looking at
> <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO/intro.html>
> 
> I've changed the IP addresses as follows:
> 
> arrakis eth0	123.12.23.43

   arrakis eth0  192.168.1.1

would have suffuced....

> arrakis eth1	192.168.0.1
> caladan eth0	192.168.0.2

Connect arrakis eth1 and caladan eth0 to the hub only.  If you've done 
it right, you should be able to ping both machines from each other....
> 
> to be able connect arrakis eth0 to the hub, ping caladan, disconnect
> arrakis eth0 from the hub, connect arrakis eth1 to the hub, ping
> caladan, repeat..
> 
> to do do that, is a default gateway required?

No, worry about the default gateway (and forwarding) after your local 
subnet is working.

> I'm just taking this one very small step at a time.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Thufir
> 


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