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From: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: TCP/IP FTP
Message-ID: <17659@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 02:27:21 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.153348.21189@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Jan16.123341.2709@waikato.ac.nz>
Reply-To: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jan16.123341.2709@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>In article <1991Jan15.153348.21189@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, yurkon@CYCVAX.NSCL.MSU.EDU writes:
>> I am using TCP/IP from Commodore on my A3000.  I have a problem connecting to
>> a site that is not listed in our local hosts file.  I can connect to it from
>> our vax, but when I try from my Amiga I get a "network unreachable" message.
>> I have used both the number and also tried adding it to the hosts file.  I am
>> trying to reach ab20.larc.nasa.gov.  All the sites that are in the hosts file
>> seem to be reachable.  Any Ideas?
>> 
>> 	John
>
>OK! Make sure that you have the netmask set correctly, and also that you are
>running the routed (router daemon). If the netmask is set incorrectly, then the
>software won't be able to find where to send the request for a site out of you
>local domain. Also if routed is not running, and updating the routing tables,
>then it won't know where to send an ip packet to be forwarded through the
>gateway.
>
>Hope this helps..
>
>

You don't need to run routed unless your Amiga is acting as a router
for other machines.  In other words, some other computer is sending
packets to the Amiga, expecting the Amiga to forward them to the proper
network.

Martin Hunt         Commodore-Amiga          martin@cbmvax.commodore.com  

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