When I was working on my gateway I noticed that stations use a 44-address as their external address. For some time there has been the gateway to 44.24.240/20 with gateway 44.24.221.1 This morning I noticed gateways with address 44.151.94.28 and 44.140.0.1 but they have been removed in the meantime.

I want to notice that my gateway cannot route traffic to gateways like that, due to the policy routing used to separate internet traffic and tunnel traffic. And I think that many other gateways have a similar setup and have the same problem.

Is there any official policy on the external gateway address? Is it allowed to be in net-44, and if not, wouldn't it be better to check this in the portal and reject submissions like this with a suitable error message? I suspect part of those entries are just the result of misunderstanding by a newcomer, and we help them getting things working by hinting at this incorrect configuration.

Rob