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From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Subject: Re: host specific route.
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>Hello,
>
>     I'm using FreeBSD 2.1.0 on Thinkpad. When I create a host specific route 
>to a machine on the directly connected network I'm not able to ping that 
>machine.
>
>Here is the scenario:
>IP address of machine1 (FreeBSD thinkpad) : 129.34.78.1
>IP address of machine2 (FreeBSD thinkpad) : 129.34.78.2
>
>Both are on same physical net.
>When I create a host-specific route to 129.34.78.2 from 129.34.78.1
>
>by " add route 129.34.78.2 129.34.78.1"
>
>it doesn't work. i.e. the route is created but I'm not able to ping each other.
>
>I know that I don't need to create to a route to ping each other, as they 
>are on the same physical net. But my project requires that I create a host
>specific route with some special flags.  I tried to give different subnet 
>addresses to these machines, even that doesn't work

You may not be able to...but you should try to delete the net entry for
129.34 or whatever the subnet is before adding the host address, 
otherwise you will get an arp confict.

Dennis