I've been trying to solve this out by myself but is nearly impossible...the thing is that I have to PCs on the same network, one is running Windows (192.168.61.100) and the other one is running Debian (192.168.61.200). I added a static route to the one running W (route add -p 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.60.254) and I perfectly can ping a PC with IP address 192.168.0.170 and viceversa from 192.168.61.100. The problem comes when I try to add the same static route to the one running Debian, when I try to do it I get: root@satv:/home/satv# route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.60.254 SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable Here are some useful things:
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1c:1b:0d:c0:a8:89
inet addr:192.168.61.200 Bcast:192.168.61.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::1e1b:dff:fec0:a889/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2965 errors:0 dropped:165 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:234251 (228.7 KiB) TX bytes:131929 (128.8 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:172 (172.0 B) TX bytes:172 (172.0 B)
route -n
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.61.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.61.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
ip route list
default via 192.168.61.254 dev eth0
192.168.61.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.61.200
netstat -anr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.61.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.61.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
Obviously I need to ping 192.168.0.170 from 192.168.61.200 and viceversa. Can anybody please helpme??? I've been working on this for days and I'm very desperate...Thanks a lot in advance.