On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:13:53PM +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Thats exactly what I feel too so I am surprised that he could
directly ping a gateway 10.10.10.1 from a network ID of 172.X.X.X It
beats networking norms. Thats why I wanted him to check it out with the
ISP.
Regards,
Rony.
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