Subnet Mask Problem

[emremulazim]

My network configuration is

IP : 192.168.10.1
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
Default GW : 192.168.9.1

At windows os, i can ping default gateway altough my machine and default gw have not same network id, there is no problem

but at FC4, i can't ping the default gw, is this a bug? Or it is normal, and windows have a bug.

[pparks1]

With that subnet mask, 192.168.10 and 192.168.9 are TWO seperate networks. Technically you would need a router to route the traffic between the two subnets.

I would NOT expect this to work on either Linux or Windows. They are 2 seperate networks.

It's likely that windows is helping you along with this problem and Linux is following the RFC more closely.

but in this case, I think that Linux is right and you should get the subnet and gateway straighted on and make it "technically" correct.