Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 04:15:30PM +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote:
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> 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
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> |ADDITIONAL_IP can be any single IP you purshased, and you see the netmask
> set to|
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> |255.255.255.255 There is no mention to the host (VMWare) IP address in the
> VM |
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[] You understand ip networking
-H
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Henning Follmann | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com
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