[ale] Routing Question

[Stephan Uphoff]

The gateway and your IP address must be in the same network.  
This was true with your old netmask - but not with your new
netmask.
Try to use 209.186.148.1 - with cablevision this should be your new gateway.
( no guarantee: ask cablevision - use on your own risk ) 



> 	I have a strange routing question that has just suddenly plagued me as a
> cable modem user.
> 
> 	I have an IP address(209.186.148.191) with a gateway address(209.186.12.1)
> which is in a different subnet.  In the not so distant past I was able to
> set up the netmask of my IP to 255.255.0.0 and everything was happy.
> I could route through my dns servers at 209.186.12.2 and 209.186.12.3 with
> no problems.
> 
> 	As of late, something has happened and I can no longer ping the dns servers
> but I can ping the gateway.  I don't have any network errors when I boot up.
> I also changed my subnet mask to the cablevision specified 255.255.255.0 and
> then I get network errors when I try to set my default gateway. I can't
> find the default gateway because it's not in the same subnet.  Any ideas?  I
> have been using the command "route add default gw 209.186.12.1 metric 1".
> I wonder why it suddenly stopped working?  I have called the cable people
> and they basically give you the "We don't support any types of UNIX here"
> blurb.
> 
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