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

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In article <VqKdnch0_e3q2evXnZ2dnUVZ_hednZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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.

Try $ TCPIP SHOW ROUTE/PERMANENT

I'll wager the only thing you setup was the default 0.0.0.0 route.
The other routes are created by virtue of starting TCPIP Services.

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