Interesting network problem

David G. Mackay mackay_d at bellsouth.net
Fri Aug 17 11:29:41 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> > It is a static address, so DHCP is not appropriate.  And, I suppose,
> > system-config-network would accept the gateway and ip addresses.  The
> > problem is that the gateway is on a different subnet than the ip by most
> > normal networking rules.  The modem doesn't show the netmask, so I
> > suppose that AT&T might have CIDRed a couple of class A addresses
> > together.  But, without that, the gateway will be unreachable until you
> > add the route add -net, which doesn't normally occur in the network init
> > scripts.   
> 
> you get to write in any gateway in system-config-network, it's not 
> limited to same subnet.

Yes, you can.  But it won't work until you give the system a route to
it.

Dave





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