AP gateway Address

My Netgear Wireless AP has a default gateway setting of 0.0.0.0

Everything appears to be working OK but I am curious as to what the
setting should be.

Steve Winograd, in a reply to a post by me in relation to NIC gateway
settings suggested it may have referred to a 'Route Table' as 0.0.0.0
is not a valid IP address.

At the moment I am using manual settings (Not DHCP), my computers are
192.168.0.1 to 5 and the AP is 192.168.0.227

Geoff Lane

The default gateway should ordinarily be your router's IP address, or if
you're using ICS it will normally be 192.168.0.1 (or the IP address of the
ICS host, if you've changed the default settings in ICS). If you have no
router or ICS host on your network the default setting will probably do no
harm.

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"Geoff Lane" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> My Netgear Wireless AP has a default gateway setting of 0.0.0.0
>
> Everything appears to be working OK but I am curious as to what the
> setting should be.
>
> Steve Winograd, in a reply to a post by me in relation to NIC gateway
> settings suggested it may have referred to a 'Route Table' as 0.0.0.0
> is not a valid IP address.
>
> At the moment I am using manual settings (Not DHCP), my computers are
> 192.168.0.1 to 5 and the AP is 192.168.0.227
>
> Geoff Lane
>

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Geoff Lane
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>My Netgear Wireless AP has a default gateway setting of 0.0.0.0
>
>Everything appears to be working OK but I am curious as to what the
>setting should be.
>
>Steve Winograd, in a reply to a post by me in relation to NIC gateway
>settings suggested it may have referred to a 'Route Table' as 0.0.0.0
>is not a valid IP address.
>
>At the moment I am using manual settings (Not DHCP), my computers are
>192.168.0.1 to 5 and the AP is 192.168.0.227
>
>Geoff Lane

The default gateway is the IP address through which a networked device
connects to non-local IP addresses, such as Internet severs.

An access point only talks to computers and routers on the LAN. It
doesn't connect directly to the Internet, so it doesn't need a default
gateway address.

Computers that connect to the Internet through an access point need a
default gateway address, and, as Richard G. Harper said, that's
normally the IP address of the router.

I'm not sure what reply of mine you're referring to, Geoff. A route
table entry with a destination (1st IP address) of 0.0.0.0 is a
default route, and the gateway (3rd IP address) in that route is the
default gateway. A route with a gateway (3rd IP address) of 0.0.0.0
is invalid.
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On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 15:11:10 -0600, "Steve Winograd [MVP]"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>My Netgear Wireless AP has a default gateway setting of 0.0.0.0

>>Steve Winograd, in a reply to a post by me in relation to NIC gateway
>>settings suggested it may have referred to a 'Route Table' as 0.0.0.0
>>is not a valid IP address.

>I'm not sure what reply of mine you're referring to, Geoff.

The one shown below.

From: "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)>
Subject: Re: Gateway Address
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:41:12 -0600
Reply-To: (E-Mail Removed)
Message-ID: <(E-Mail Removed)>
References: <(E-Mail Removed)>

Geoff Lane

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Geoff Lane
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 15:11:10 -0600, "Steve Winograd [MVP]"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>>My Netgear Wireless AP has a default gateway setting of 0.0.0.0
>
>>>Steve Winograd, in a reply to a post by me in relation to NIC gateway
>>>settings suggested it may have referred to a 'Route Table' as 0.0.0.0
>>>is not a valid IP address.
>
>>I'm not sure what reply of mine you're referring to, Geoff.
>
>The one shown below.
>
>From: "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>Subject: Re: Gateway Address
>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:41:12 -0600
>Reply-To: (E-Mail Removed)
>Message-ID: <(E-Mail Removed)>
>References: <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
>Geoff Lane

Here's what I said in that message. Do you have a question about it?
The first two entries are always 0.0.0.0 in a default route. The 3rd
and 4th entries, which I called a.b.c.d and w.x.y.z, can't be 0.0.0.0:

0.0.0.0 isn't a valid IP address, and it can't be the address of a
default gateway. Are you thinking of a route table entry that
looks like this?

0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 a.b.c.d w.x.y.z

That's a default route, as indicated by values of 0.0.0.0 for the
destination IP address and the subnet mask. The default gateway's
IP address is "a.b.c.d", and TCP/IP uses the LAN interface with
address "w.x.y.z" to communicate with the default gateway.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:42:36 -0600, "Steve Winograd [MVP]"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>>>My Netgear Wireless AP has a default gateway setting of 0.0.0.0
>>
>>>>Steve Winograd, in a reply to a post by me in relation to NIC gateway
>>>>settings suggested it may have referred to a 'Route Table' as 0.0.0.0
>>>>is not a valid IP address.

>Here's what I said in that message. Do you have a question about it?

No, not at all, not at the moment anyway :-))))

My original post, which you answered, asked about the setting of
0.0.0.0 which my Wireless AP has by default.

The reference to your answer was asking what the default gateway
should be - this has been answered OK.

Geoff Lane