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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "Stephen Darragh" <stephen@belgarath.it.com.au>
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Subject: Routing with subnets
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<<On Wed, 15 Feb 1995 15:37:15 +0800 (WST), "Stephen Darragh" <stephen@belgarath.it.com.au> said:

> I want to have this route :

> 203.8.116.40     203.8.116.4        UGSc        0        0       ed0

> (with netmask 255.255.255.248)

> route traffic to 203.8.116.41/42/43/44/45/46 via 203.8.116.4 instead of via
> the default route.

> Why doesn't it?

What makes you think it doesn't?

Everything depends on what else is in your routing table.  Show us the
output of `netstat -ran'.

-GAWollman

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