Eric on 28 Aug 2009 14:13:43 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] network fixer hat


Paul DiSciascio wrote:
> You're correct, it's being passed to the default gateway.  You won't  
> be able to talk to anything in the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet without a NIC  
> on that subnet or a router that knows about it.   Even if you were to  
> add a route for that subnet to your routing table, the return traffic  
> won't know how to get back to the 10.10.10.0/24 subnet.

This makes sense.  Oddly, I can get return traffic from the ftp daemon
Unfortunately, I cannot log in so maybe it's not working as it appears.

> However, if the host your traffic is originating from is a linux host,  

Yes.

> you can get around this by adding an alias to your NIC with an IP on  
> the other subnet.  For example, to add an alias with an IP of  
> 192.168.1.12 to eth0, you would do the following:
> 
> ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.12 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> and you'll notice the appropriate route is now there and traffic  
> should flow normally.

Great!  Although that did not solve the ftp login problem I'll leave it while I
work on accessing the target itself.

Thanks,

Eric

> 
> ~Paul
> 
> On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Eric wrote:
> 
>> Once again I'm called on to wear my "network fixer" hat... but this  
>> time it's in
>> my own office!
>>
>> I use an internal 10.10.10.0/24 IP range in my home/office.   
>> Unfortunately, most
>> devices that I'm going to add to the network to configure (wireless  
>> routers,
>> NAS, etc) have 192.168.[0|1].0/24 addresses.  When I plug in the new  
>> device and
>> try to access it via http or tftp from my Linux workstation - I get  
>> nothing.  Is
>> that because any request outside the 10.10.10.0/24 range falls  
>> through the
>> routing table to "default" and then gets sent to the gateway - which  
>> drops it as
>> non-routable?
>>
>> How can I "tweak" my routing on the Ubuntu (8.10) workstation to see  
>> these types
>> of devices without messing up anything else?
>>
>> Here is the output of the route command:
>>
>> ~$ route
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref     
>> Use Iface
>> 10.10.10.0      *               255.255.255.0   U     1       
>> 0        0 eth1
>> link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000    
>> 0        0 eth1
>> default         polaris         0.0.0.0         UG    0       
>> 0        0 eth1
>>
>> I'm thinking this might work:
>>
>> route -v add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 -dev eth1
>>
>> Would I add this permanently or just when I needed it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>> -- 
>> #  Eric Lucas
>> #
>> #                "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
>> #                 And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
>> #                                        -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
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#
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#                 And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
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