Re: host route out of subnet

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:21:27AM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> > I am working on an issue with managing a host route to a host outside
> > of the defined subnet.
> 
> My first reaction is "just point the host route to the on-subnet
> gateway".  But...
> 
> > We have a wiki on it here:
> > http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/#nonsubnetgateway
> 
> ..."the gateway you need to route through may not be on the same subnet
> as the address assigned to your network interface".

We used to have that 'problem'.
The solution was to locally allocate the gateway an IP address
in your local subnet and then add a permanent arp entry for
that IP address to the gateway's mac address.

	David

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