On Saturday 29 July 2006 07:23, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > Well I don't understand why it isn't. Is it a security risk of some > sort? Or is it simply "bad design" by the networking guys and hence > should not be supported? Probably some networking gurus on list could > elaborate.
My limited amount of knowledge says, a gateway should act as a "gateway" to your network. So if you are in the IP range 10.x.x.x then there should be a gateway that routes all traffic in the subnets through it. If any node in that IP range wants to talk to, say 192.168.x.x then the packet first goes from the node to its own gateway, then through whatever networking equipment ( switches / hubs etc... ) to 192.168.x.x's gateway which then routes the packet to the appropriate node. Hence, a node in the IP range 10.x.x.x directly contacting 192.168.x.x's gateway is simply wrong. This is my understanding. Someone plz clear up the air. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
