Pinging a host over a router

choobysoo

This is kind of a stupid question. I have 2 hosts and I want to be able to ping each other. According to this image, what else do I need to add in?

MrBrian

Since the networks are directly connected to the router, you won't need to configure any routing. Just slap the hosts with some IP's, manually or dynamically. If you plan on doing it dynamically you'll need to setup the router as as dhcp server. Make sure the IP's are in the range of they're assigned to and also give them their default gateway (router interface IP).

choobysoo

Works like a charm, thank you very much. I didn't have my default gateway set.. Would think it would work like a switch...how stupid was that. Thank you again