From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 00:19:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA04130 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 00:19:15 -0700 Received: from warp10.smartlink.net (smartlink.net [204.118.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA04124 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 00:19:14 -0700 Received: by warp10.smartlink.net(8.6.12/SMARTLINK-1.0) with id AAA07054 for on Wed, 6 Sep 1995 00:19:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 00:19:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph McDonald To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199509040936.LAA22884@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > > I'm having a weird routing problem. If I log into the FreeBSD machine > > via modem->termserver->FBSD and the modem drops carrier in the middle of > > the session, the route to my computer gets changed to the ethernet! > > Your netmask for the ethernet interface does include the IP address of > the SLIP peer. As long as the SLIP interface is up & running, its own > host route gets precedence over the ethernet network route. However, > if the modem drops carrier, the specific host route (this is the > _remote_ IP address of the SLIP i/f) disappears, hence all further > packets for this address default to the ethernet route, and the IP > layers attempt to ARP for it on the ethernet. So is there a way to fix this? This problem only occurs on the FBSD machine, not on a SunOS machine on the same network (although the sun isn't runinng routed, while the FBSD is....). In other words, shouldn't the FBSD pick up the route to the SLIP peer once I re-hook up to the portmaster? Thanks, -joe