network gateway with a foreign IP address

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Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sun April 13 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> The route-<interface-name> file contains the data that is used by
>> the interface activation script to add routes specific to that
>> interface. Although strikingly accurate, You can think of the file
>> running the route add command with the information provided in the
>> file passed to the route command. I have not checked to see if it is
>> still true, but the file used to accept routes in 2 formats - the
>> one you show, and form used by the route command.
>>
>> You either have to create the file by hand, or use one of the
>> network setup GUIs to create it.
> 
> well, this issue was settled in an "interesting" way. 
> trying to mimic what the Debian user had figured out was looking more and more 
> like a poop in a punch bowl
> my boss figured out a different way to do the same thing, but, you may be 
> surprised
> he told me to configure my 70.###.###.124 address in the following manner:
> we gave it a subnet of /24 even though our block of 64 IP's  has a subnet 
> of .192; though our address range starts at .64 we told it that its gateway 
> was .1  --  somehow, the Cisco router is smart enough to figure this all out 
> and get our traffic onto the net, don't ask me how ---
> 
Do I understand correctly that you took a Class A ip address and gave it 
a class C subnet mask? Ummm is that not a huge waste of IP addresses? or 
am i reading that wrong?

Max

Max