I am configuring a server on my network. I have an IPv4 address block xxx.xxx.xxx.24/29 riding on top of a /30 block. My router has an address on the /30 block as the WAN interface, and .24/29 (255.255.255.248) as the DMZ interface, per instructions from the network engineer, which in theory gives me .25-.29 as available addresses for servers.
This configuration works fine in Windows Server. I add an ip address (xxx.xxx.xxx.25) net mask (255.255.255.248) and gateway (xxx.xxx.xxx.24) and the network is up. In Ubuntu, when I assign the address xxx.xxx.xxx.27 and net mask 255.255.255.248, the OS assigns .24 as the network address of the IP block. If I manually assign .30 as the network address and .24 as the gateway, I can ping the .25 server, but everything else is cut off.
I had a similar problem when changing routers. My current router running OpenWRT handles the .24 gateway fine, but the router I originally wanted to run (a Ubiquiti EdgeMax router) refused to work with .24/29 configured as the DMZ interface. On that router I had to use .30/29, and the gateway on the servers became xxx.xxx.xxx.30, which worked OK when configured.
Has anyone seen this problem before? I am not a networking guru and have no idea why different OS / network stacks would treat the same block differently.
Any help is appreciated.
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EDIT: I just changed the DMZ interface to .30/29 and tried these settings for eth0 on my server:
address: xxx.xxx.xxx.27
netmask: 255.255.255.248
gateway: xxx.xxx.xxx.30
These settings did not work. This is a Supermicro server with Intel Gige nics, Ubuntu seems to recognize the nics fine but I am going to check the driver situation anyway.
Incidentally, I had this same issue trying to run an Ubuntu VM on top of Windows Hyper-V on identical hardware.
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EDIT: Further investigation: the server is running Intel 82574L GigE NICs. An older thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1700367 reports problems with the supplied driver for this chipset, and a solution using kernel ppa. I am going to check the advice from this thread, any suggestions otherwise are appreciated.
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EDIT: OK, so I typed
route add default gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.30
ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.27
and now the NIC is working. I want to make this change permanent, but these settings in /etc/network/interfaces does not seem to work from boot. Suggestions?
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