Colin Whittaker hath declared on Monday the 12 day of February 2001 :-:
> >
> > I realize that one possibility is to add a static route to the
> > existing gateway (.3.5), and let the other machines' default
> > route take care of it, but that would involve each packet
> > going across the wire twice.
>> Nope because the default router will issue an ICMP redirect message to
> the windows box telling it to send the rest of the packets to 3.15
Except Windows machines ( 9X at least ) don't know what to do when they
get an ICMP redirect and just ingore it.
Had me confused lots when a linux box on a flat network that was
supposed to talk through another lixun box that was masquerading
in front of a router, wouldn't work, but 9x clients would work.
Linux box was being sent redirects to the router which wouldn't talk to
it because it was in private IP land... how bizzar...
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