Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT) From: hsn <hsn@42is.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: hsn@colonel.42inc.com (hsn) Subject: Routeing Strangeness Message-ID: <199710162010.NAA00378@colonel.42inc.com>
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I am setting up a FreeBSD 2.1.7 box as a gateway for a local network. I'm having a really odd problem (it seems to me) that I can't figure out: When the gateway boots, the first machine on the LAN to contact the gateway can connect, see the internet at large, etc. but any other machine on the network cannot. The gateway says arp lookup failed: host not on local network. It can be any machine on the network - IP address, OS, etc. all don't seem to matter. The routing tables look normal to me - a default route to the ISP, various routes to various nonlocal networks, a route mapping the incoming line (from the ISP) to the ethernet card on the local network, and then the ip<-> ethernet route for the first lucky machine to connect. Has anyone seen this before? Help! Thanks much. Harry PS - please cc me: I haven't subbed to the list yet (have to get this working first!) Thanks.
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