On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 19:10, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > that temporary route will break his internet access, since 192.168.0.1 > is ALSO his internet gateway on the W-LAN side. > > there's no way around this. if you can readdress one or the other LAN, > then this would just work all the time. > This is on the Internet-connected interface: wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:de:98:c7:34 inet addr:192.168.0.26 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::218:deff:fe98:c734/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:114879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:78945 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:104017653 (104.0 MB) TX bytes:11292782 (11.2 MB) And this is on the LAN-connected interface: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:c5:c8:13:d1 inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fec8:13d1/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1921474 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8322288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:146445850 (146.4 MB) TX bytes:3479224403 (3.4 GB) Interrupt:17 I'm not booted into CentOS at the moment (I just rebooted to Ubuntu because my Thunderbird mail is there) but I can reboot if there is any other info that might be relevant. I'm really surprised that it is this difficult (I don't yet believe impossible!) and just assumed that I'm doing things wrong. As the saying goes, if in Linux it is getting difficult, then you are probably doing it wrong! Surely I am not the first person who is connected to two separate LANs and needs to access addresses on both of them. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com