On 2007-06-20, pankaj jain <jainp1979@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/20/07, Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Plumbing means I did not assign the IP 203.200.192.24 to any of my > interfaces, instead I was using arptables to respond the arp requests > for this IP. > The gateway exists on the same subnet but because I did not assign the > IP to any of my interfaces, ip route rejects the gateway add command. > but now I understood that first I had to add the network route for that gateway. Or use "dev DEVICE onlink" suffix: ip route add default via 203.200.192.1 dev eth0 onlink -- Petr