Microsoft Networking Idiosyncrasies

[sritzel]

Can anyone please explain to me why this works? To me, it violates the basic laws of networking, yet all of our MS computers don't have any issues, but Linux ones do:

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Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-18-8B-5C-C2-9E
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.3.112
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.11.2
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.3.34
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.3.34
10.1.2.34
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, April 26, 2007 03:32:15
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, April 29, 2007 03:32:15

Route Print:
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.1.11.2 10.1.3.112 20
10.1.3.0 255.255.255.0 10.1.3.112 10.1.3.112 20
10.1.3.112 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
10.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 10.1.3.112 10.1.3.112 20
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 10.1.3.112 10.1.3.112 20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.122.1 192.168.122.1 20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.130.1 192.168.130.1 20
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 10.1.3.112 10.1.3.112 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.122.1 192.168.122.1 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.130.1 192.168.130.1 1
Default Gateway: 10.1.11.2

Is it a MS only thing? I'm just curious. If I set up a Redhat box and put it on DHCP, I can only see within the 10.1.3.X subnet.

Thanks!!!