[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana server networking problem.

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 09:53 AM, DormitionSkete at hotmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>> Wait, what do you mean by "the gateway ip is the same as your nic address"?
>>
> What I meant is that the Gateway on line three says 192.168.0.4, and that is also the IP address of the nic.
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>

You have no understanding of how ip networking works. 192.168.0.4 is the 
'gateway' for the 192.168.0.0 network. The kernel needs to know which 
interface to use for contacting ip addresses on the 192.168.0.0 subnet.