Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one.
Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
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.
Just wondering, but would not specifying a gateway prevent most things
from accessing outside of a LAN? (Ignoring people manually
reconfiguring their clients to sidestep it.) I would have thought so,
but don't know if things to be /helpful/, these days.
Yes, I can test that on my own LAN. But it's not a very broad test of
the notion.
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tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.16.3-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 17 23:07:44 UTC 2014 i686
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