Setting Gateway and Subnet mask

[admin_2]

Hello,

We have a 2511 router set up so users can dial in and access our network. The user dials in fine and gets an IP address but the subnet mask is 255.255.255.255 and I need it to be 255.255.254.0 How do I change this??

Also the Gateway gets set the same as the IP address but we need that set to something else as well. How do I change this??

Thankyou

Kevin Dix

Sacred Heart College

[Craig Norborg]

I believe that if you are assigning these users from a dialup pool, that this is the way that it has to be. The "255.255.255.255" is a "host route", which says that this one IP is down here, the router itself will do the answering for the real subnet. I believe it has to be this way because your dialup connection is a point-to-point link, while for something to be on a "255.255.254.0" subnet it would have to be on some kind of shared medium (ie: ethernet or frame-relay).

If you want the subnet that has the netmask "255.255.254.0" to be on the other end of the dialup link, you will need to put in a route command into the profile of the dial-in user, how you do it would depend on whether your using radius or static users or whatever.

Not positive this is right, just working from my dialup experience with other platforms here. Hope it helps though!!

[smif101]

The mask is fine, that is the way it is with pretty much all dial up connections. Are the users unable to get anywhere on the network or was this just something you had questions about.

[#4]

The problem is that with these settings in place I am not able to see my proxy server for some reason after logging into novell. I can see the others but not the proxy. All internal PC's work fine. Do I maybe have to set the Gateway and Subnet in the async properties area??

Thankyou

Kevin

[smif101]

Are you able to ping your proxy server? You might have a routing issue.

Jason Smith

www.smif101.com