Re: default route problem

[Roy Marples <roy marples name>]

Carlos Menezes wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I don't know if problem I had is the same of yours:
> When I try to connect to a WiFi network, I can't get a route to default
> gateway. I discovered that default gateway is not in the same subnet I am;
> for example, I got IP 10.2.203.20, netmask 255.255.255.0 and default gateway
> was 10.2.0.1.
> I solved by, manually, add a static route to 10.2.0.0/255.255.0.0 and a
> route to default gateway.
> I noticed that Windows machines do this automatically.
> Could this detection (of local network and gateway in different subnets) be
> done automatically? 

Sounds like it's serving out classless static routes which neither 
dhclient or NM support. dhcpcd-4 does support them, and you can find a 
NM-0.7 patch to allow this here [1].

Thanks

Roy

[1] 
http://www.nabble.com/RFC3442---The-Classless-Static-Routes-td18925762.html