Default Gateway via DHCP
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Aug 11 10:10:36 UTC 2008
Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>Regarding my "standard addressing", my understanding is given a
>typical IP address, the initial address of that subnet is the
>default gateway. Tools such as ifconfig perform this way - I don't
>know at what level this behavior is defined.
It isn't defined - it is ENTIRELY down to the network admin.
However, it is common for consumer grade equipment to default to
using 192.168.1.1 as the gateway address - and many admins use .1 as
the gateway. This is NOT universal (one of the guys at work always
uses .254 on customer networks), and it is NOT a defined standard.
I am not aware of any client that automatically configured it's
gateway like this in the absense of other config.
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