Should Gateway and Ip Address Be the Same?

1 Answer. No, it cannot be the same. Yes, you can change netmask, but you need to do that on every computer/device having an IP address on the network, otherwise part of the machines in the network cannot be reached.

Does a gateway have an IP address?

In the networking world, a default gateway is an IP address that traffic gets sent to when it's bound for a destination outside the current network. On most home and small business networks—where you have a single router and several connected devices—the router's private IP address is the default gateway.

What IP address should be used as the gateway address?

In this example, the default gateway uses the IP address 192.168. 4.1, which is resolved into a MAC address with ARP in the usual way.