[NTLUG:Discuss] Dual NIC Firewall - Problems with the external NIC

[Chris Cox]

Chris J Albertson wrote:
> Thanks for the help all. I'm set now.
> *blush*
> What I didn't know was that the route command by itself does a reverse lookup on
> the IP address of the default gw. Since I set up the firewall without the
> network connected to the external NIC, it couldn't do the reverse and just hung
> for a while. Once I connected the external NIC, route returns information quick.
> I just assumed that things goes screwed up if route didn't return info fairly quick.
> 
> Thanks again for the help.
> 

route -n is your friend.