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Gateway outside of subnet (How does it work?) 1
- Thread starter Piloria
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Somehow I don't think it will work. Is it really working? Is that 10.1.0.1/16 really their gateway? You can type "ipconfig /all" on command prompt(cmd.exe) on those PC on each network to confirm the actual gateway.
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Yes it will work, the same way summarization works. When a router summarizes subnets, it lowers the mask to include many subnets represented in the same mask. 10.1.x.x/30 all the way down to 10.1.x.x/17 would work for this gateway. Administrators do this all the time with static routes to lower the size of the routing tables in the routers.
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