Paul is correct.  They are on the same subnet.

The -r flag skips routing. Since 63.146.38.211 is one hop away, I should
be able to ping it with -r. I cannot.

Dave

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:06:39PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> By my calculations, it _is_ within the /27:
> 
>                             /27 = 0b11100000
> 214 = 0xd6 = 0b11010110  masked = 0b11000000
> 208 = 0xd0 = 0b11010000  masked = 0b11000000
> 
> Since both the destination and the gateway, when masked with /27, have
> the same value, they're both on the same subnet.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something very basic....
> 
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> > >  # warning: do not run this before you read the whole e-mail
> > >  ifconfig tlp0 inet 63.146.38.214/27
> > >  route add -host 63.146.38.211 63.146.38.208
> > >  ping -rn 63.146.38.211
> >
> > 	gateway field in the routing table has to be reachable directly
> > 	(= has to be within 63.146.38.214/27), if i understand correctly.
> >
> > itojun
> >
> 
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