On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:36:47AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > My local network (192.168.1.0) consists of two machine BSD1 (192.168.1.40) and > BSD2 (192.168.1.42). > There is a third machine (192.168.1.254, ip address from isp) that acts as a > gateway router. When my internet connection goes down for whatever reason I > loose connections in my local network. For example, i can't ping 192.168.1.40 > from 192.168.1.42. is there any explaination for this? is it because my default > route is set to be external? > > Thanks, > > Brian
Are your two local machines simply connected by a hub/switch, or is there some other setup? What does your routing table look like - output of `netstat -rn`. Is there an entry that looks something like: 192.168.1 link#1 UC 3 0 eth0 nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc
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