Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

[Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:17:18PM +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased
> failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server.
> 

Of course not! Some host _on_your_subnet_ must be responsible for
forwarding the packages. And a route has to be set so your machine knows
where to send the packages beyond your local subnet to. That is the
gateway. It is just a shortcut to define the default route.

So the installer is right.

-H 



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