On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:13:53PM +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
My limited amount of knowledge says, a gateway should act as a "gateway" to your network. So if you are in the IP range 10.x.x.x then there should be a gateway that routes all traffic in the subnets through it. If any node in that IP range wants to talk to, say 192.168.x.x then the packet first goes from the node to its own gateway, then through whatever networking equipment ( switches / hubs etc... ) to 192.168.x.x's gateway which then routes the packet to the appropriate node. Hence, a node in the IP range 10.x.x.x directly contacting 192.168.x.x's gateway is simply wrong.
Thats exactly what I feel too so I am surprised that he could directly ping a gateway 10.10.10.1 from a network ID of 172.X.X.X It beats networking norms. Thats why I wanted him to check it out with the ISP.
Regards,
Rony.
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