Your gateway should be always on the same block otherwise you'll get the
error. logically ... paano ka lalabas kung walang pintuan yung bahay nyo
:)

your "bahay" is your ip block/subnet.


as for windows, it really lacks in error checking.

HTH.

'jopoy


Carlos said:
>
> hi, i have a problem setting up the gateway in slackware 8.1.  all the
> computers in my office has valid ip addresses, we were assigned one
> netblock, from x.x.x.66     x.x.x.126 netmask is 255.255.255.192.   the
> gateway ip is x.x.x.46 netmask 255.255.255.192.
>
> in windows setting it up had no problems.  but in slackware 8.1 it
> doesnt seem to work, i've used netconfig, and tried editing the
> /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file manually...still nothing!!  i've tried doing
> #/sbin/route add default x.x.x.46,  and it returns "SIOCADDRT: Network
> is unreachable".  dont know what to do, please help me.
>
> does it matter if the gateway belongs to another netblock?  if so, how
> come windows accepts it as its gateway?  i really tried everything i
> can.
>
>
>
> carlos
>
>
>
>
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