route add

[Barry Margolin]

In article <BB9CDD3678F2D2119CD000A0C998695D66C5AE at nlmoc5.nlmoc.navy.mil>,
Sears, Robert <Sears at NLMOC1.nlmoc.navy.mil> wrote:
>Greetings!
>
> I am trying to add a static route into my firewall using the route add net
>statement. I am putting in this, route add net 172.16.0.0 net mask
>255.255.0.0 172.16.1.1 (172.16.1.1 is the default gateway on the router
>Ethernet port)
>
>From anywhere on any subnet on my LAN I can ping 172.16.1.1 ether net port
>but when I use the add route statement from the firewall it says network is
>unreachable ? any thought would be great!

The next-hop in a route has to be an address on a directly-connected
subnet.  Does the firewall have a 172.16.1.x interface?

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