Need help settling a routing discussion(arguement!) between routers

[Kevin Darcy]

What does this have to do with DNS, let alone BIND?


- Kevin

Robert Chalmers wrote:

> Trying to settle a discussion about routing between two routers.
> Here's the simple setup.
>
> This is how it is currently set up. The PC and the server need to talk to
> each other. The server can take requests through the firewall card from the
> internet to serve a video stream, which it gets from the PC encoding it at
> 174.24.4.2.
> I've split the lines at the --\ to avoid wraparound.
>
> [PC-174.24.4.2]-------[router 174.24.4.1]---------//-------------------\
>                                route.0.0.0.0 gateway.192.168.80.1
>
>                                -----[router
> 192.168.80.1]--------------------\
>                                      route.0.0.0.0 gateway.174.24.4.1
>
>                                          -------[Server.192.168.80.2 -firewa
> ll]..........internet....
>
> So. I rekon the second router, 192.168.80.1 should be configured with two
> static routes.
>                        route.0.0.0.0 gateway.192.168.80.2
>                        route.172.24.4.2 gateway.172.24.4.1  1 hop
> not as its configured in the first instance, wher I rekon its just
> reflecting _any_ enquiry back to the 1st router?
>
> The PC is not on any network. It's simply the encoder for the videostream.
> the server is the streaming server.
>
> so, does anyone have a definitive answer to our errr, discussion.
> Thanks
> Bob