eth0/1

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 17:51 +0000, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
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> FThanks
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> ifconfig was as expected.  "route -n" was new to me, so I did it.
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> Looks like for the destination 0.0.0.0 (which I believe is outside)
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> it was using the 10.0.0.215 machine rather than 192.168.5.15.

Destination 0.0.0.0 indicates the default gateway.

> They are both the same machine, but 192.168.5.X network is
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> accessible to the outside world.

It had better not.  192.168/16 is a private IP space, specifically not
routable in the Internet.

The default gateway is the IP address of a machine on your local network
that has an interface on the Internet as well.  This is typically a
router (or a machine behaving like a router).  Essentially, any traffic
for machines with addresses that are NOT on your local network go to
the gateway, and from there out onto the big, bad Internet.
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