[Info-vax] setting up an alpha in a home network using a linksys router

[Richard B. Gilbert]

azhrei wrote:
> On Jul 30, 9:39 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> azhrei wrote:
>>> the alpha has the static of 192.168.1.99
>>> and no no route set up...
>> If no route has been setup, the alpha would have no idea where to send
>> packets that are destined outside your current subnet.
>>
>> TCPIP> SET ROUTE 0.0.0.0/gateway=192.168.1.1/default/permanent
>> TCPIP> SET ROUTE 0.0.0.0/gateway=192.168.1.1/default
>> TCPIP>
>>
>> That will tell the alpha to send any packets not belonging to your
>> subnet to 192.168.1.1 (which I would assume is your router).
>>
>> TCPIP> SHOW ROUTE
>>
>> should display a few entries, including the 0.0.0.0 pointing to your
>> router, the subnet pointing to the alpha's IP address, the alpha's own
>> IP address pointing to itself, and 127.0.0.1 pointing to itself.
> 
> set route didn't like /default a conflict illegal combination
> 
> so I tried with just perm and got the following
> 
> error accessing routes dn (tcpip$route)
> invalid param value for destin name
> invalid internet address 0.0.0.0
> 
> should I have put something in the 0 place?
> 

ALPHA5_$ tcpip show route

                              DYNAMIC

Type           Destination                           Gateway

AN    0.0.0.0                               192.168.1.1
AH    127.0.0.1                             127.0.0.1
AN    192.168.1.0/24                        192.168.1.11
AH    192.168.1.11                          192.168.1.11
ALPHA5_$ ping comcast.net
PING comcast.net (76.96.54.12): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 76.96.54.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=18 ms
64 bytes from 76.96.54.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=17 ms
64 bytes from 76.96.54.12: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=18 ms
64 bytes from 76.96.54.12: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=17 ms


----comcast.net PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 17/17/18 ms

That's what it should look like when correctly set up.  It has been 
seven or eight years since I did it and the details of HOW I did it have 
slipped away.  192.160.1.11 is the IP address of the Alpha.