On 21 Oct 2003, at 11:04, Tikiri Wicks wrote:
I'm just wondering if anyone has any feedback regarding this situation. I maintain a multi homed Linux router in the Seychelles Islands for the Seychelles government and the CTO of one of the ISP's wants me to use an IP of 217.161.116.143 with a netmask of 255.255.255.255 and a default gateway of 217.161.116.8.
If it was me, I'd want to see a diagram of exactly what was connected where. If your box is connected to the same broadcast domain as his box, you can probably ARP for your default gateway and find it without having an interface address in the same subnet. On a cisco you can do this with an interface route ("ip route 217.161.116.8 255.255.255.255 eth0"); you'll see this exposed as a connected route with appropriate distance. But it's all pretty ugly. Joe