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Operating Systems Solaris Error adding static route
# 15  
Old 08-17-2010
Hi,

Is the Gateway address your interface IP? If so then what is the subnet set in it?

//Jack
# 16  
Old 08-17-2010
You cant add a route to a network where the gateway is part of the same subnet.
Using your example:
Code:
route add -net 2.15.246.0 255.255.255.0 2.15.246.1

You are giving it a route to the 2.15.246.0 network via the gateway 2.15.246.1.
But if it already knows how to get the 2.15.246.1 then it already knows how to get to the whole net (if your subnet is 255.255.255.0) so it wont allow the route.

Also I believe, your gateway needs to be on a network that is already specifically listed in the routing table, NOT just available from the default route (otherwise it assumes the default router can handle it, because thats its job)

It seems that the router 1.1.126.50 has a different subnetmask for the 2.15.246.x network as its routing .1 correctly but not .253 - Im pretty sure you cant override this route using the local routing table.

Also you cannot always use "ping" to test routes. "ping" uses "icmp" NOT "ip" and therefore is not constrained to the same routing protocols (icmp can be redirected amoungst other things).
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