I don’t speak linux. Working with Win2K machines.
Just to experiment, I have a second network adapter on my machine A which is running the virtual machine I am trying to ping (I mean ping from another machine on my wireless net).
So now machine A has:
One net adapter, assigned 192.168.0.70, with a gateway of 192.168.0.1 and a DNS of 192.168.0.1, this is the wireless network
A second network adapter, assigned 10.1.66.20, which is TUNTAP’d to the virtual machine, whose home address is 10.1.66.40
On machine A I can PING 10.1.66.40 fine
On machine B, I did a
Route ADD 10.1.66.20 mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.70
From machine B I can ping 10.1.66.20 just fine
But I still cannot ping 10.1.66.40 from machine B no matter what. I even went in and did a REGEDIT on machine A and turned on IPRouteEnable.
It’s driving me freakin nuts. I just need simple answers to simple questions. What does machine A do with a packet if it’s not for him? WTF does it mean for something to be a “GATEWAY” (I thought that it meant it was sort of a default like if something is not for me I put it to the gateway and let him handle it, but that appears to not be the case)
What happens if the gateway definitions don’t line up with the route tables?
If the software on machine A gets a packet, does he send it to a hardware address or to software on the other side of the hardware?
TCPIP is the klugiest pile of crap I ever saw. And I’ve been in the business long enough to see some pretty big steaming piles.
Is the whole dam thing set up to be network-to-network, or peer-to-peer? Or both?
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!