[c3v]

Hello guys,

I have a debian server which i want to use to connect two networks

Network A: 192.168.1.0/24
Network B: 192.168.50.0/24 - actual

In between my two networks there is a service provider who is going to link them through a WIFI link + VPN.

On my debian i have two NICs

NIC A:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0


NIC B: - connected to the WIFI gateway
iface eth1 inet static
address 172.16.2.1
netmask 255.255.255.252
network 172.16.2.3
up ip route add 192.168.50.0/24 via 172.16.2.2
pre-down ip route del 192.168.50.0/24 via 172.16.2.2

On my second network the computers are using 192.168.50.20 as the gateway to get access to my first LAN - 192.168.1.0/24

Everything is working fine.. but i would like to use a cidr network on my second LAN since i have only 3 computers over there

therefore instead of using 192.168.50.0/24 i would like to use 192.168.50.50/29 giving me a posibility of having 6 IPs on my second LAN from 192.168.50.49 to 192.168.50.54. But the issue is i do not know how to make the routings...

ip route 192.168.50.50/29 via 172.16.2.2 is giving me RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

ip route 192.168.50.0/29 via 172.16.2.2 work fine.. but i will not be able to use 192.168.50.50 as my gateway on the second LAN.

Can someone help me?

Maybe i missed something

[dpak]

Hmm... could be because you need to specify the network address for that IP block... so instead of:

ip route 192.168.50.50/29 via 172.16.2.2

Try:

ip route 192.168.50.48/29 via 172.16.2.2

The block you are trying to use is actually 192.168.50.49 -> 192.168.50.54, with a network address of 192.168.50.48 and a broadcast address of 192.168.50.55.

Hope that helps.

[c3v]

thanks.. ip route add 192.168.50.48/29 via 172.16.2.2 is correct since .48 is the network address