From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 08:47:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA20390 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:47:58 -0800 Received: from ncd.com (firewall-user@welch.ncd.com [192.43.160.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA20377 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:47:52 -0800 Received: by ncd.com; id JAA20030; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 09:21:17 -0800 Received: from z-code.z-code.com(192.82.56.21) by welch.ncd.com via smap (g3.0.1) id xma020008; Tue, 14 Nov 95 09:20:50 -0800 Received: from zolaris.z-code.com (zolaris.z-code.com [192.82.56.41]) by z-code.z-code.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA02395; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:40:49 -0800 Received: by zolaris.z-code.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA06310; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:43:44 -0800 From: "Ulf Zimmerman" Message-Id: <9511140843.ZM6308@zolaris.z-code.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:43:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: Steve Spiller "Now it routes, now it don't!" (Nov 13, 9:41pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 06sep94) To: Steve Spiller Subject: Re: Now it routes, now it don't! Cc: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Nov 13, 9:41pm, Steve Spiller wrote: > Subject: Now it routes, now it don't! > > Well, I'm not sure what I did, or maybe it was a fluke that it was even > working in the first place, but i'm having routing problems. > > Heres the scenerio : > > Machine A and B are both a part of the network 205.134.198 > Machine A is running FreeBSD 2.0.5, and Machine B is running Windows 95. > Machine A talks to machine B, machine B responds. All is happy and good. > > Now, machine A uses its modem to dial my PPP provider and establish a > connection. This connection creates the address of 204.71.144.66 ( local > ) and 204.71.144.?? ( remote ). So now machine A ( 205.134.198.1 ) can > talk to machine B ( 205.134.198.2 ) and machine A can also talk to the > rest of the Net. > > I have the address 204.71.144.66 as my default router, and I have > #define GATEWAY compiled into the kernel etc ... as I said, it was > working. Now, I can't for the life of me get machine B to see the Net or > vice verca. In fact, the Outside world won't see machine A as > 205.134.198.1, only 204.71.144.66. It is normal that the outside world sees only the PPP address as this is the outgoing interface. That machine B isn't seen depends if you 205.134.198 net is routing from you provider or not. > > The only other option is that my providers portmaster dropped my network > from its routing tables ( this has happened before ), but I mailed the > network guy at my provider and asked him to check. *shrug* I suppose > that he may not have yet ... but if anyone has a similar setup, can you > please send me a copy of your 'netstat -rn' output? > > Thanks for any help on this!!! > > > -Steve > steve@microdot.com > >-- End of excerpt from Steve Spiller Ulf. -- Ulf Zimmermann