[H-GEN] Static Routing

[Mark Suter]

David,

> I have a machine which sits on network 192.168.6.0/24. My gateway is 
> 192.168.6.1. There is also another network 192.168.4.0/24. I can ping they're 
> gateway 192.168.4.1. How can I set a static route so that I can ping hosts on 
> the 192.168.4.0/24 network. I've tried a few things but it hasn't worked yet. 

There are two main commands to do this, either route or iproute[1].
I prefer iproute because it's clearer:

    ip route add 192.168.4.0/24 via 192.168.6.1
    ip route add 192.168.4.0/24 dev eth0

Yours sincerely,

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