Query on default gateway with DHCP vs Static address

Fri Mar 19 03:48:27 UTC 2021

Hi Simon,

On your dhcp server do you specify a gateway? For isc dhcpd it will be 
"option routers" in the subnet definition settings. Verify that the 
gateway you specify is in the same subnet as the IP address being 
assigned to the interface.

Can you post the output from "ip route" and "ip address" so we can see 
what is there?

If you are configuring the IP address manually then it depends on your 
particular version of linux on how that is done. Usually you will 
specify an IP address, netmask and gateway- but the files used vary from 
distribution to distribution. eg Ubuntu uses /etc/netplan/*yaml or 
/etc/network/interfaces depending on the version. CentOS uses 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Or it may use Network Manager 
and the associated GUI to manage the configuration.

regards,
Glenn

On 2021-03-19 14:34, SIMON BABY wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
> It did not show the default route of 0.0.0.0/0 [1] with route -n. One
> thing I noticed is, I can ping to another Address only with -I
> interface_name. For example I can send and receive packets with ping
> -I eth0 8.8.8.8.
> If I use ping 8.8.8.8 it is not working. Am I missing anything here?
> 
> Regards
> Simon
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:15 PM <glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Simon,
>> 
>> The default route will show up with a destination of 0.0.0.0/0 [1]
>> if you
>> use route -n.
>> 
>> If you use "ip route" it will show up with a destination of
>> "default" in
>> the first column.
>> 
>> regards,
>> Glenn
>> 
>> On 2021-03-19 13:54, SIMON BABY wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>> Thank you so much for helping.
>>> 
>>> Yes, I am using ISC dhcpd. My query is with ISC DHCPd I can ping
>> to
>>> any network, but I did not see the ISC gateway in the kernel route
>>> table. Will it be stored somewhere else so that when packet goes
>> out,
>>> the hardware (NIC) gets this information?
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Simon
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 5:07 PM Peter Yardley
>>> <peter.martin.yardley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> This is prolly a problem with your configuration. Are you using
>> ISC
>>>> DHCPd? If so could provide a relevant snippet of your
>> configuration,
>>>> anonymised if necessary.
>>>> 
>>>> I used to configure subnets like this …
>>>> 
>>>> subnet 10.20.50.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 {
>>>> option subnet-mask 255.255.254.0;
>>>> option broadcast-address 10.20.51.255;
>>>> option routers 10.20.50.1;
>>>> 
>>>> pool {
>>>> # A device for Blah
>>>> host HMTXYZ           { hardware ethernet 00:40:9d:54:4c:c7;
>>>> fixed-address 10.20.50.32; }
>>>> …
>>>> 
>>>> range 10.20.51.0 138.25.51.254;
>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> Of course there are many other correct possiblities
>>>> 
>>>>> On 19 Mar 2021, at 10:03 am, SIMON BABY <simonkbaby at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have a query about the DHCP provided IP address vs Static IP
>>>> address configured manually.  When i get the IP address from
>> DHCP, I
>>>> can ping to 8.8.8.8 (google public server) where as
>>>>> with a statically configured IP address, I could not.  When I
>>>> looked into the route table (route -n ), I did not see any
>> default
>>>> gateway with DHCP or Statically configured IP.  (I am testing
>> with
>>>> Linux).
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. Can I know when the packet goes out , how did the hardware
>>>> (NIC) find the default gateway in the case of the DHCP provided
>> IP
>>>> address since I did not see any default gw IP in the routing
>> table?
>>>>> 2. With statically configured IP, if I explicitly configure a
>>>> default GW, I can see packets are going out and receiving. I can
>> see
>>>> the default GW in the routing table. Do I need a default GW to
>> send
>>>> packets from a statically configured IP address ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for your time
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Simon
>>>>> 
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