From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 3 00:00:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01969 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:00:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01949 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA17548; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:18:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:18:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Mike Smith cc: Don , Tom , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add route In-Reply-To: <199809022245.WAA00404@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > Should i instead be specifying the localhost as the gateway? > > You don't add routes for directly connected networks; there's an > implicit route courtesy of the existence of the interface. > > I think this is contra to the way Linux works (requiring an explicit > route for anything). What about if the ethernet had two IP addresses, one from each Class C or CIDR/24 block, is there any way to specify default routes for the two addresses for packets outgoing so it knows which upstream provider to use if we have two T1 links? Thanks. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message