Routing table suddenly limited

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jun 17 22:56:32 UTC 2014


On 06/18/14 06:43, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> Have you ever seen this result from the command route -n?
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags    Metric Ref     Use Iface
> 0.0.0.0            192.168.1.1   0.0.0.0               UG    1024 0        0 wlp3s0
> 192.168.1.0    0.0.0.0           255.255.255.0   U       0 0        0 wlp3s0
>
> The "wlp3s0" is a wireless interface.
>
> But I have another computer that uses a regular Ethernet interface. The result, except for a different interface name, is the same.
>
> As a result, Samba suddenly won't work for me anymore.
>
> The only difference is, I permanently retired an old computer from my home network. That computer had been running Fedora 20, and I had made updates since Fedora 12. Now, with that computer no longer part of the network, neither of the two Linux boxes can see the other. But either of them can see a Windows physical box, so long as that box is turned on.
>
>

[root at meimei ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    1024   0        0 p128p1
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 p128p1

wired interface....and all is well.

I never knew what "see" means. 


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