unreachable host

[Kyle Faber]

On Monday 30 December 2002 1:38 pm, mazdaracer wrote:
> Interesting!  Changed D Link to 192.168.5.2 and the laptop updated to
> 5.100 with a 5.2 gateway. Have net access; can also ping 192.168.0.10,
> the linux box!
>
> Tried to ping from the linux box to the laptop. No go. But then I
> noticed it was as if I was pinging from eth0, the external interface,
> and not eth1. So do I have an issue on the linux side now?
>

=09Excellent.  This answer is easy.  You can't ping through a NAT device =
unless=20
you build manual route tables.  Even though they happen to both be intern=
al=20
subnets, pinging though the DLink to the laptops is like being outside yo=
ur=20
DSL and trying to ping through another router.  It's just not going to=20
happen, the NAT Device is blocking the pings.

=09Don't know if that sentence actually makes sense.  Someone who knows w=
hat I=20
am trying to say want to re-interpolate that for me?


Kyle Faber
EMR Internet
kyle@emr.net