route command displays gateway backward

Asked Aug 15 '14 at 14:20

Active Aug 15 '14 at 14:20

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Very puzzling problem on CentOS 6. After I issued this command:

route add -net 190.160.190.0/24 gw 191.160.203.254

I then check with the route command, but the gateway IP appears backward:

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
190.160.190.0   254.203.160.191 255.255.255.0   UG    0      0        0 em2

Note the gateway is 254.203.160.191 instead of 191.160.203.254. I could actually reproduce the problem on another machine runnign CentOS 6. It happens for only this one rule I'm adding though; similar rules with different IPs apparently work fine.

What could possibly cause this?

asked Aug 15 '14 at 14:20

Luke

Are those the actual IP addresses you're working with? – Michael Hampton Aug 15 '14 at 14:22
Do you have a directly-attached network into which 191.169.203.254 falls? – MadHatter Aug 15 '14 at 14:37

route command displays gateway backward

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