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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: How come "network is unreachable"?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.094215.21419@csus.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 09:42:15 GMT
- References: <lux.715035359@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
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- In article <lux.715035359@sol.UVic.CA> lux@sol.UVic.CA
- (Michael O'Henly) writes:
- > I've connected my NeXT to the university's Ethernet and I'm
- >able to telnet to other hosts within the campus domain. When I try to
- >reach hosts outside the domain, I get a "network is unreachable"
- >message.
-
- In order to reach hosts outside your directly-attached network
- (or subnet), your machine needs to be able to find a suitable
- router. In the common case where you are on a "leaf" network
- (i.e. only one way out), edit your /etc/hostconfig file to
- specify the router's IP address as you see it, e.g.
-
- ROUTER=128.189.109.1
-
- Things get more complicated if you're not a leaf site, in which
- case you should contact whoever maintains your local network;
- they may tell you to use ROUTER=-ROUTED-, or they may provide
- alternative software that needs to be started from /etc/rc.local
-
- -=EPS=-
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