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. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.16.3-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 17 23:07:44 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
