Gateway and access-list 2

[Netomaniac]

I have a situation were the assigned default gateway for a particular switch is outside the subnet of the switch itself. The default gateway is always the next-hop, but the issue is that we do create access-list based on the subnet and in the above case the gateway is outside the subnet.
Will this create any routing issues.

Thanks,
Neto......

 

[LawnBoy]

As far as I know, the default gateway must be on the same subnet it servers.

 

[Netomaniac]

Is there a document that i can refer in the above case.

 

[Netomaniac]

FYI,

I have enabled the IP forwarding on the switch, will this help in assigining the default gateway outside the subnet.
I think the issue in assigining the default gateway outside the subnet would be the failure to do the ARP to get the MAC address of the IP outside the subnet,

Does it make sense...

Neto thanks..

 

[LawnBoy]

1. Yes I believe that will help.

B. That's the way I understand it. How could the gateway ever return a packet?

I refer to "Daryl's TCP/IP Primer" a lot but I'm not sure you could call it authorative.

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