@tgidwani Wow. Really glad you figured that out. I have done a lot of networking but I wouldn’t have expected the gateway setting to cause such an error. In theory the gateway information is only ever used when the host tries to connect to a machine that is not within it’s own subnet. So gateway shouldn’t play a role here as long as both were in the same subnet.

Are you able to replicate the issue when putting the GATEWAY= line back into the config??