On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:20 +0100, Sebastian Kloska wrote: > Since the latest update I do not get a default gateway via dhcp > in our companies network. Found out that dhclient-script > in dhclient-3.0.2-26.FC4 rejects to set our default route. > 10.0.255.254 I haven't tried the latest client, but the prior one wouldn't set a gateway for me on a Windows network, though apparently did on a Linux network. > The add_default_gateway function is never called whenever there is a > 255 within the ip of the default route as reported by the DHCP server, > which is the case in our companiesnetwork. > > Is this a bug or is there a convention which forbits the *255* > gateway address? It's common for a x.x.x.255 IP address to be a broadcast address, though it doesn't have to be (there are other preconditions). Some things do seem to have problems with .255 ending IP addresses, even when they're not a broadcast address. For that reason, it can be advantageous not to use them. You may, later, discover even more problems than than the one that you've just noticed. A x.x.x.254 is a common convention for a gateway address, but it's just a custom, there's no obligation. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
