Cisco Router Commands

Ok, now do a SH IP ROUTE and it should look similar to the following:

router#sh ip route
Codes: C - connected, S - static, I - IGRP, R - RIP, M - mobile, B - BGP
D - EIGRP, EX - EIGRP external, O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area
N1 -OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2
E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2, E - EGP
i - IS-IS, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS level-2, ia - IS-IS inter area
* - candidate default, U - per-user static route, o - ODR
P - periodic downloaded static route

Gateway of last resort is not set

10.0.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets
C 10.0.0.0 is directly connected, Ethernet0
C 192.168.0.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet1

See how I have 2 C routes defined? Those are directly connect routes that the router know of. YOu see, for each network a router has a leg on, it then has a preferred route to that network. The administrative cost to that route is 1, the best you can get (unless you change it). So now, this router can route to either 10.0.0.0 or 192.168.0.0.

Now as for your client workstations, here are your options as I can see them:
1) set up a static route on whatever device you are using asthe "default gateway" for the 10.0.0.0 network, pointing the 192.168.0.0 network to the E0 interface on your router. Then on whatever device is the "default gateway" for your 192.168.0.0 machines, set up a static route on that device pointing the 10.0.0.0 network to the E1 interface of your router.

or 2) you could set up static routes on all of your clients (every workstation and server) on the 10.0.0.0 network pointing the 192.168.0.0 network to the E0 interface of your router. Then set up static routes on each device on the 192.168.0.0 network, pointing the 10.0.0.0 network to the E1 interface of your router.

As you can see, it is easier to do option 1. Just add a route to your default gateways, pointing the other network to the appropriate interface of the router. You see, your clients on 10.0.0.0 will want to forward the 192.168.0.0 requests to the 10.0.0.0 default gateway anyway (since it is the gateway to other networks!). So, why not set up the routes on the gateways!

Now, this is just a simple 2 network routing issue.Imagine when you have dozens of networks!!!

One last thing. With the router on each network leg, that removes the need of running any routing protocols on the router. YOu won't need them. So, if someone is telling you that you need RIP or IGRP or OSPF or something else, tell them that it is not necessary....
unless your router has only a single Ethernet interface. If so, then things get real interesting!

hope this all helps. Routing is very complex and exact.

sorry I dont know how to respond to you. This did help.

great, thanks for your help. The part about the clients helped the most. I belive I have the router setup fine. It is the same way you did it. On the 10.0.0.0 side I have a PIX 501as the default gateway, so would I put a static staement on there pointing to the 192.168.0.0 networ? How would that look?

As far as the 192.16.0.0 network, it s default gateway is the router. Would I then add a static starem to the router? How would that look?