Re: Static interface routes for IP address on different subnet doesn't send an ARP who-has

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Aug 22, 11:54am, David Young wrote:
} On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:39:04PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
} > Sorry, but you are basically doing something that does not conform to
} > Internet standards, and that will probably require some code reading.
} 
} It's customary to configure a small subnet for host and gateway to
} share, and then to configure a route to the gateway, but is that
} because an Internet standard says it should be so (and why does it say

     In order to access a node that is "off net" you need to go
through a gateway.  That implies that the gateway MUST be "on net",
otherwise you have a catch-22 (i.e. how do you get to the gateway
when it is "off net".  This ISPs configuration is just bogus!

}-- End of excerpt from David Young