Static IP Route Not Working

[DoubleTapNY]

Friends, I need your help again.  I'm trying a very basic Static IP Route. I cannot get it to work every time.  Firewalls on PC's are off.  Using Ubuntu 18.04 on physical machines.  Version 12.3 on routers.  Switches are using default VLAN 1.  All equipment has been reset to factory settings.

This is my network diagram:

PC 1 can ping Router 1, but not router 2

Router 1 can ping PC 1 and Router 2

PC 2 can ping Router 2, but not router 1

Router 2 can ping PC 2 and Router 1

Here is the screen shot for static routes for router 1

Here is the screenshot for static IP routes on router 2.

Any suggestions are welcome.  Thank you.

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello,

I apologize for the dumb question have you configured appropriate defaults gateways on the two linux PCs?

Because your static routes look like correct on the routers.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[Hector Gustavo Serrano Gutierrez]

Hi @DoubleTapNY,

From your configuration and description, the Static Routes and the Routers configuration should be OK.

What is the Default Gateway set on the Linux hosts?

Try looking via GUI.

If via CLI, try with the route -n or ip route commands.

Please paste the results here for both of your Linux hosts.

[DoubleTapNY]

This is the manual config for PC 1

This is PC 2

[joseph.h.nguyen]

Beside ping, you should use traceroute at both endpoints to diagnose network path especially when managing complex and large topology.  

For your case, common problem is misconfiguration of default gateway and/or subnet mask.

[DoubleTapNY]

Traceroute tried to go through the Internet Interface and not the static LAN interface I am trying to setup.

[DoubleTapNY · Accepted solution]

Thanks for everyone's help.  All the little pieces fell into place.  This is what I did thanks to your help.

Traceroute tried to go out the Internet interface, not the interface I was trying to use for the static route.  When I unplugged the internet, everything pinged just fine.

I found a command to allow pinging from a specific interface:

ping -I enp6s0 10.10.10.1

And it pinged just fine.

[Hector Gustavo Serrano Gutierrez]

I'm glad it is working OK now.

[DoubleTapNY]

Thank you so much for the help.  I never bothered with a trace route because it was only two hops.  Goes to show, never forget to use all the tools available.