Re[2]: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.
On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 16:10, davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 12:41 +0800, hongyi.zhao@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-2E-2B-6C
>> Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
>> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 210.73.34.32
>> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
>> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 159.226.135.129
>> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 159.226.135.10
>> 129.226.8.7
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> Now, I switched from windowsxp to debian with the above ip
>> configurations, but I don't know how should I set my debian using the
>> above ip configurations, to be more specifically, the main issue in my
>> case is that: the gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP
>> Address.
> As you rightly point out, the gateway is not located on the same subnet
> as your IP address. In effect this means that you cannot communicate to
> any host beyond your own subnet.
> I'd called this IP setup 'broken'!
> It sounds like either your IP address is set incorrectly, or
> alternatively that your gateway address is set incorrectly.
> In order to fix this, you need either:
> - a different IP address, falling in the same subnet as your quoted
> gateway address, or
> - a corrected gateway address which shares the same subnet as your
> quoted IP address.
> If you're on a corporate or academic network, I'd speak to your local
> network admin to figure out what the correct settings should be, because
> the settings you give above will not work on *any* OS (assuming the
> information you've provided is accurate and complete).
This is just what puzzle me a lot. In fact, I obtain the above ip
configurations from within my windows xp by _ipconfig /all_ and the windows
xp itself can surf on the Internet smoothly, for you information, I
give you here all of the informations of the command _ipconfig /all_:
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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig/all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : 32c428cacc2141e
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethe
rnet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-2E-2B-6C
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 210.73.34.32
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 159.226.135.129
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 159.226.135.10
129.226.8.7
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> Dave.
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Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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2009-4-2
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