Setup for a static ethernet connection

[Mike Wright]

10/05/2014 02:11 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 10/05/2014 07:54:40 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
>> On 10/05/14 03:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>> On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one.
>>
>> In that case you could only connect to computers within the same
>> subnet
>> as your network interface, apparently 198.168.20.0 in your case. If
>> you
>> want to connect to other computers outside of this subnet, you need a
>> gateway. You probably also need a gateway to do name resolution,
>> depending on how you have setup that.
>>
>> Can you ping computers on your subnet? Using their IP-address?
>>
>> Lars
>
> Thanks, Lars. Accesses outside the local net is not required.
>
> Yes, a ping to the IP address responds correctly.
>

Hi G,

Here's a different approach to try.

Make the common box a /16; each of the sub-nets would still be /24.  The 
common box is already a forwarder so nothing else should have to be done.

Let us know if that works,
Mike Wright