[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana server networking problem.

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Jul 3 01:06:40 UTC 2013


On Wednesday, July 03, 2013 08:56 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
> 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.
>
Peter,

My apologies for the curt reply.

regards,

Christopher



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