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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 18:43:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris <chrismar@readington.com>
To: Spidey <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: Default router
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NIC = Network Interface Card

C

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Spidey wrote:

> 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).
> > 
> 
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> Spidey
> 
> Visitez http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran
> 
> 
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