Hi In our client environment, recently we promoted couple of VMware windows servers to Domain Controllers.When checked the ip address configuration of these, I found that the default …

Oct 17, 2010 · Hi S ip default-gateway is only used on a L2 switch. It allows you to telenet to the switch. The switch needs to get back to you so it needs the address of a router when you are …

The IP address of the gateway is the IP address of the device with a routing function, such as a router or a server that enables the routing protocol. So the PC0 gateway should be …

In this case, why is the 'ip default-gateway' command necessary on the switch? The host has been configured with the default gateway's IP address and will use ARP to find the default …

Apr 17, 2025 · The terms "default gateway" and "gateway of last resort" are often used interchangeably, but there's a subtle difference in their usage. A default gateway is the IP …

So they will need to have the command ip default-gateway mgmt-ip-address in their configuration. The default gateway command is the layer 2 equivalent of a layer 3 default route.

With a Layer 2 only switch, the main purpose of the default-gateway command is so that you can communicate with the switch, for management purposes, from outside the subnet that the …

That is, for you to be able to manage the switch remotely. If routing is enabled, the switch will ignore the ip default-gateway command in favor of the static route that is being set through the …

The default gateway can be set in a number of different ways, and the easiest way is to just configure it statically using the command ip route 0.0.0.0/0 x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is the IP …

Here is my topology I want to load configs to and from a tftp server located at 172.16.1.1 (in red above). I set the interface VLAN 1 ip address to 10.0.0.10. I can ping 10.0.0.1 fine. I can't ping …