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Date:      Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:20:46 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        bill clarke <wlclarke@cats.ucsc>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, wlclarke@cats.ucsc.edu
Subject:   intranet/internet routing
Message-ID:  <9606142020.AA17499@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <30F857FB.167EB0E7@cats.ucsc>
References:  <30F857FB.167EB0E7@cats.ucsc>

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<<On Sun, 14 Jan 1996 01:10:19 +0000, bill clarke <wlclarke@cats.ucsc> said:

> i have my server set up as a gateway, and my default route on the 
> client set up as 10.0.0.1

> i can ping the provider gateway 205.199.113.253 from the server,
> and i can ping the server from the client over the ethernet.

> here's the problem: i cannot ping my provider gateway 205.199.113.253
> from the client 10.0.0.2 even though netstat -r says all the required
> routes appear to exist.

It's a private network; by definition, machines outside of your site
do not have routes to your private network.  (How could they, when the
same company's other clients are probably using the same network?)

-GAWollman

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