From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 20:31: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD9014C23 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22378; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:27:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma022361; Wed, 10 Mar 99 22:26:59 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id WAA03905; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:26:58 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990310222658.G3600@winternet.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:26:58 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Cowboy Killer Killer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Cowboy Killer Killer on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 10:58:15PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cowboy Killer Killer wrote: > Hello, > My name is Tim Lisko, i goto hgh school at msg Bonner High School in > Drexel Hill PA. My teacher recently bought a copy of FreeBSD, 3.1-RELASE. > I have expereince w/ Linux, this is the first time i have used freebsd. > Well, my question is thiis. I am having trouble getting the machine onto > the LAN + out to the net. Previous to running FreeBSD we ran slackware > 3.6, which is what i use on this machine. To get the machine out to the > net through that machine i ussed these command > route add 172.31.109.100 eth0 > route add default gw 172.31.109.100 > Now, for the route in FreeBSD I can not issue this command, I get a write > error. route add 172.31.109.100 172.31.109.100..... If you have any > suggestions, please respond, Thanks. > Tim Lisko Try 'route add default 172.31.109.100' as root or just edit /etc/rc.conf to have the line 'defaultrouter="172.31.109.100"' -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message