On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:45:35 +0200
Martin Love
SuSe:/home/lovem # netstat -nr Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 81.83.48.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 81.83.48.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 What this routing table is telling you: Traffic to destinations, 192.168.* and 169.254.* go through eth1, which is apparently your local LAN.
Traffic to 127.*.*.* is localhost.
Traffic to 81.83.48.* goes through eth1
All other traffic uses 81.83.48.1 (eth1) as a gateway. If eth1 is
attached to your cable modem, then it will route all traffic other than
the above subnets to the external network.
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Jerry Feldman