[TriLUG] Help routing between different devices

Ed Blackman via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Tue Jul 14 23:45:38 EDT 2020


On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:55:06PM -0400, Steven Tardy wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:48 PM Ed Blackman via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
> > In the uplink VM, I can ping 10.0.0.2 (itself), 10.0.0.1 (brup0 on the
> > host), 192.168.2.214 (br0 on the host), and 192.168.11.1 (brrt0 on the
> > host), but can't ping or otherwise connect to 192.168.2.1 (the real
> > router for the lan) or any other LAN or internet host.
> 
> 192.168.2.1 needs to know how to get to (how to route to) 10.0.0.0/8.
> Add static route within upstream router (192.168.2.1) to 10.0.0.0/8 via
> 192.168.2.214.

Thank you!  So the problem wasn't that the packets couldn't get out of 
the VM, but that they couldn't get *back*.

I would have never figured that out on my own.  Thanks so much!

-- 
Ed Blackman


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