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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  TCP routing from ring through node to ether on SR10.2?
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Date: 31 Aug 90 20:31:09 GMT
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Your netmask should be the same for both sides of the gateway
(ie. 255.255.255.0, since your network is 128.183 and your
ringnet is subnet 30 and your ethernet is subnet 10). What bogus
broadcasts do there seem to be? Routed junk? If so, you don't
really even need to run routed ... just set the default route
for all the non-gateway ringnet node to be the gateway node (after
all, there's only one way to get off the ring) and then set the
default route on the Apollo gateway to point at the gateway
between your local ethernet (the one the Apollo gateway is attached
to) and the your next hop to the Internet. That is how we do it
here at MIT ... it's the official gospel local nodes do not run
routed in any form (since even in quiet mode, some versions have
the nasty habit of flushing routing tables of *everything*). Let
*their* gateway worry about the routing!


 -- David Krowitz

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