On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 at 11:43:29 -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
On 21 Oct 2003, at 11:04, Tikiri Wicks wrote:
??? I'm just wondering if anyone has any feedback regarding this situation.
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If your box is connected to the same broadcast domain as his box, you can probably ARP for your default gateway and find it without having an interface address in the same subnet. On a cisco you can do this with an interface route ("ip route 217.161.116.8 255.255.255.255 eth0"); you'll see this exposed as a connected route with appropriate distance.
For linux (with correct kernel +options / iproute tools) use "ip ro add 217.161.116.8/32 dev eth0" from your preferred shell for the same effect. Your box will then try arp solicitation for this address via eth0. Or if you prefer a more Cisco like implementation then I'd suggest the Zebra routing daemon[s] and Joe's command above. Matt.