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

[Mihamina RKTMB <mihamina@atscom.io>]

On 10/31/23 15:35, Henning Follmann wrote:
> 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.
What you describe is what happens on home or office network. On 
datacenter networks, it can be much different.

Look at this documentation: 
https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/en-dedicated-servers-network-bridging?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0043731#step-4-configure-the-virtual-machines

|ADDITIONAL_IP can be any single IP you purshased, and you see the 
netmask set to|

|255.255.255.255 There is no mention to the host (VMWare) IP address in 
the VM |

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