[ale] Local IP Non-Pingable on LAN from different Class C

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sun Jul 21 13:24:52 EDT 2002


The default gateway for 192.168.1.X needs to be on 192.168.1.X.  


On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 13:13, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> Good afternoon, everyone. 
> 
> I have a bit of a problem. It's probably something completely silly that
> I'm overlooking, but I can't figure it out.
> 
> I have a local network. The local network is augmented with 802.11b
> wireless. Wireless devices have their ethernet info configured via DHCP
> from the wired network. This all works fine and dandy. 
> 
> Wireless devices are set to use IPs in 192.168.1.0/24 assigned via DHCP.
> Wired devices use 192.168.0.0/24 and are hard-set. Netmasks across the
> board are 255.255.252.0. A Laptop connects to the network, and is assigned
> 192.168.1.200
> 
> Here's the problem. The laptop is able to contact (ping) every machine on
> 192.168.0.0/24 *EXCEPT* 192.168.0.4. Every machine on 192.168.0.0/24 *IS*
> able to contact 192.168.0.4.
> 
> Since 192.168.0.4 acts as my gateway to the internet, that means all
> machines that are in the 192.168.1.0/24 range are not able to access the
> internet. 
> 
> (Interestingly enough, if I assign the laptop an IP in 192.168.0.0/24, it
> works fine.)
> 
> One curious thing I noted, is that I saw the broadcast address is wrong on
> this machine: (from ifconfig)
> 
> inet addr:192.168.0.4  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
> 
> All other machines report Bcast as 192.168.3.255. Anyone have any ideas?s
> 
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