[X-Unix] routing

Stroller macmonster at myrealbox.com
Thu Dec 29 16:00:03 PST 2005


On 29 Dec 2005, at 23:19, John Harrold wrote:
>
> I've recently moved to Samoa as a peace corps volunteer to teach.  
> I've run into
> what I belive is a routing issue. I'm getting internet access from the
> university where I'm working, and I'd like to connect to a computer  
> in my
> research group from grad school....

IP addresses beginning with a 10. are reserved for private subnets...  
so your traceroutes showing five hops within a 10.0.0.0/8 subnet  
indicate that it's really big &/or complicated and that your packets  
aren't leaving the private network for an unusually high number of hops.

Stroller.


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