[wellylug] Routing problem

[michael at diaspora.gen.nz]

>When you come back from LCA, do try getting your head around the routing
>thing, as it's pretty essential to understand it when playing with
>external access (so's security ... :-)

To that end, I find using the ip(8) command a whole lot easier than
working with the traditional route(8) -- the important difference is
the use of the words 'to' and 'via'.  Compare:

    ip route add to default via ...

To:

    route add default gw ...

    -- michael.