From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 15:34:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F8614D2B for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:34:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spidey@jsp.umontreal.ca) Received: from localhost (spidey@localhost) by localhost.jsp.umontreal.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA05582; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 18:34:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spidey@jsp.umontreal.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.jsp.umontreal.ca: spidey owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 18:34:06 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey Reply-To: Spidey To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Default router In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > Naw, you gotta add the IP to the NIC like so: > > ifconfig ed0 206.12.12.3 This I did. (what's NIC?) > that'll set your machine's IP to 206.12.12.3. Now, assuming you have a > gateway of 12.34.56.78 (which I made up -- that can't possibly be your > gateway), you can run > > route add 0.0.0.0 12.34.56.78 > > netstat -r probably stuck because it couldn't do any DNS lookups or > something. Try netstat -rn instead. Great! Thanks for everything! > --- > Tani Hosokawa > River Styx Internet > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Spidey wrote: > > > aaah! > > > > I tried route add default 12.34.56.78 > > > > and netstat -r stuck... > > > > I can't test it now because i'm not on the good machine... > > > > And... humm... the NIC you're talking about is 12.34.56.78, in the > > example? And the IP would be 12.34.56.78? > > > > Thanks! > > > > PS: Shouldn't this be in the handbook or something? In the default routes > > sections, it is explained how it is working, but not how to add a default > > route... :( > > Yeah, I wish there was more documentation around. I'm just messing with > FreeBSD for the first time in like, two years (I had an installation for > about a week, before I switched to Linux). > ############################### ## Au nom de l'etat, ## ## La force s'appelle droit. ## ## Au main de l'individu, ## ## Elle se nomme crime. ## ## ## ## -Berurier Noir ## ############################### Spidey Visitez http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message