Re: Setting up i5 for External Access

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Is the preferred interface really necessary?  Does *none for preferred 
interface hurt performance?   
 
-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: Setting up i5 for External Access


What is the IP address of your i5 again?
What is the IP address of *DFTROUTEs next hop?
I only have one entry in routes on may of my i5's
Route            Subnet           Next             Preferred 
Destination      Mask             Hop              Interface 
 
*DFTROUTE        *NONE            10.10.1.1        10.10.1.230

Preferred interface is normally the address of the i5.
The first three octets, in this case 10.10.1, of the Next Hop always match 
my IP address of my i5.

My desk pc often will be in a different subnet than my i5, and they would 
then have different next hops.
However, if your desk pc is in a different subnet than your i5, and your 
i5 can ping your desk pc that should mean that your next hop is -probably- 
good.  Unless of course you have all sorts of routes instead of just the 
one that I have.  If your routing is simple and you can ping outside the 
same subnet within your enterprise, then I suspect some zealous work on 
the part of your firewall to block the i5 from the internet.

Rob Berendt