To add a default route into your Linux box,
route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 10.0.0.1
However, if you only execute this command, the route will disappears if you reboot your system.
So, what would be the best way to permanently add that route to your system?
You may add or edit the default gateway on /etc/sysconfig/network file, [...]
This is a quick fix to vmware network virtualization.
Sometime while using vmware, your guest virtual machine may face the problem with network connectivity.
I have this problem with two of my virtual machines the other day. Only one of the virtual machines is able to connect to the network. (By the way, both are created [...]
It is important to understand the process of routing if you are interested in learning networking. One of the fundamental of this study is static routing. Static routing is not complicated, but it is the basic. We need to understand the basic in order to learn the advanced topics.
Static routing is the process of configuring [...]
In our previous post on How to test if a port is open on a server or PC, we have indicated that in TCP/IP networking, port 25 is used in SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), port 110 is for POP3 (Post Office Protocol) and so on.
Anyway, where can a user find the port [...]
In networking, sometime while performing network trouble shooting, you may like to quickly test if the connection to a website is available. Without using a web browser, you also can use the telnet command that is available in most of the login terminal like Command prompt, unix login shell or Cisco login terminal.
To test a [...]
After maintaining few pages related to computer network, Cisco Systems and networking, I have decided to consolidate all these sites into this new domain — Internet PC Networking which will focus on all issues related to these areas. Hope that by having this consolidation, I can have more time to focus on the contents in [...]
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is one of the most popular TCP/IP protocol uses today. It is used by networked devices to obtain information required to operate on an Internet Protocol network. These information may include
IP address
Default gateway
DNS server address
and so on.
When a DHCP client is first switched on, it sends a [...]