[isp-linux] Re: netmask - gateway

[bscott@...]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, at 9:33pm, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> Shouldn't the gateway be something like 1.2.3.254 in the above example. It
> has to be on the subnet, correct?

  That's the usual method.  I have seen exceptions.  For example, a
point-to-point link doesn't really have a subnet mask.  You can also add an
explicit route on a hardware interface, but that's really uncommon.  The
only time I've seen that done "in the real world" is on the StarBand
satellite network (which is almost not a real IP network anyway).

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Ben Scott <bscott@...>
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