Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.
hongyi.zhao@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 16:10, davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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.
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>> I'd called this IP setup 'broken'!
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>> It sounds like either your IP address is set incorrectly, or
>> alternatively that your gateway address is set incorrectly.
>>
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>> In order to fix this, you need either:
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>> - a different IP address, falling in the same subnet as your quoted
>> gateway address, or
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>> - a corrected gateway address which shares the same subnet as your
>> quoted IP address.
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>> 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).
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> 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_:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> Dave.
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Can you run a traceroute and reply back with the results?
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