On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 04:15:30PM +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > > On 10/31/23 15:35, Henning Follmann wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:17:18PM +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased > > > failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. > > > > > Of course not! Some host _on_your_subnet_ must be responsible for > > forwarding the packages. And a route has to be set so your machine knows > > where to send the packages beyond your local subnet to. That is the > > gateway. It is just a shortcut to define the default route. > > > What you describe is what happens on home or office network. On datacenter > networks, it can be much different. > > Look at this documentation: > https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/en-dedicated-servers-network-bridging?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0043731#step-4-configure-the-virtual-machines > > |ADDITIONAL_IP can be any single IP you purshased, and you see the netmask > set to| > > |255.255.255.255 There is no mention to the host (VMWare) IP address in the > VM | > > || > > || >
[] You understand ip networking -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
