[PLUG] network fixer hat

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

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
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