On Sep 27, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > >> The gateway has to relate to an subnet that is configured on an interface. >> If you want to make the default route 192.168.55.4, one interface >> (physical, or logical) must be on the 192.168.xxx.xxx subnet, where >> 192.168.55.4 is included. For example, if the subnet is 192.168.55.0/24, >> then your interface would need also be in the 192.168.55.0/24 block. If >> the gateway is .4, and there are no other hosts/devices, your computer's >> interface could be configured with any IP between 192.168.55.1-3, >> 192.168.55.5-254. > > Thought I wrote this. The network is 192.168.0.0. This host is > 192.168.55.7, and the netmask is 255.255.255.0. > The IP 192.168.55.7 is NOT in the network 192.168.0.0/24 (mask of 255.255.255.0) The only valid IPs in 192.168.0.0/24 are 192.168.0.1-255 (don't try to allocate .255, its used).
> The kernel routing table on my current desktop is: > > # route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > default router1.appl-ec 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0 > loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > > I'm trying to set the default gateway on the new desktop which already has > the loopback and network routes as above (except on that host the interface > is eth1). > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
