Is route command and default gateway the same thing?

[Peter Fleischer]

If I want to connect two subnets with a router I can use a multihomed
NT pc as a router.

If my subnets are 194.182.146.0 and 194.182.147.0 I can set up the
"Default gateway" addresses on the pc's on both sides of the router.
"Default gateway" addresses are the multihomed pc NIC TCP/IP
addresses. All this works fine.

BUT: If I use the route command like:
"route add 194.182.146.0 194.182.147.2"
and
"route add 194.182.147.0 194.182.146.1"
on the pc's on both sides of the router (not both commands on one pc),
it dosn't work at all.

Isn't "Default gateway" and route command more or less the same?

Thanks in advance
Peter F

[Gav]

they dont mean the same thing
>route add 194.182.146.0 194.182.147.2

hmm this looks like you are tying to route traffic to 194.182.146.whatever
over the gateway 194.182.47.2 - is that what you want? if so I think you
need to specify the mask too, something *like*:

route add 194.182.146.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 194.182.147.2

Not to sure what you are trying to do but the "route" command lets you
specify WHICH gateway to send data over based on the IP range of the
destination.

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