Adding a route?

[Senectus .]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:01:43 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:51:45AM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> 
> > I use my laptop at work and when there I like to add a different route
> > into my windows environment, How do I do this in Ubuntu?
> >
> > and example.. the route I add for work in widows is:
> > route add 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.1 metric 10 /p
> >                 ^Dest           ^netmask       ^gateway             ^permanent
> >
> > How do I do that in linux?
> 
> That's a very odd-looking route.  Perhaps Windows ignores the netmask when
> the address is 0.0.0.0.  Anyway, it looks like you're trying to add a
> default route:
> 
> sudo ip route add default via 10.0.0.1 metric 10
> 
Ok that "works" (as in no error) but its not sending me out the
gateway of my choice..
I've tried to read the info page on it and it mentions I should be
using "gw" to set the gateway.. But when I try that, it basically says
my syntax is wrong.. whats the proper format for doing that?


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