On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 17:51 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > FThanks > > > > ifconfig was as expected. "route -n" was new to me, so I did it. > > Looks like for the destination 0.0.0.0 (which I believe is outside) > > 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 > > 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - The world is coming to an end ... SAVE YOUR FILES!!! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
