Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:08:00 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: "Nathan" <nkinkade@dsl-only.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multiple destination addresses on a PPP link Message-ID: <015f01c1ed0a$40e15690$b50d030a@PATRICK> References: <002801c1ec3a$7bf078e0$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020425091436.51b36da1.nkinkade@dsl-only.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan" <nkinkade@dsl-only.com>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:20:46 +0200
> "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
<SNIP>
> > # ifconfig hdlc3 192.168.7.1 192.168.7.2 netmask 255.255.255.248
> > I tried forcing a route manually:
> > # route add -net 192.168.7.0/29 192.168.7.1
>
>
> It might be that I don't know enough about ifconfig or
> your particular situation, but what is that 192.168.7.2
> address doing in your ifconfig statement?
The second address identifies the IP at the far end of the PPP link.
> So supposing your PPP link was established on tun0, you
> could issue the following route command:
> route add -net 192.168.7.0/29 -interface tun0
Ah - there's my problem! I have now tried:
# route add -net 192.168.7.0/29 -interface hdlc3
and now it works!
It seems that for Ethernet NICs, FreeBSD automatically generates a route
add command similar to the above for each NIC and its subnet. But it
does NOT do this for a PPP device. I guess there is some logic in that,
since PPP links generally do not have subnets larger than /30, but doing
the same as for other NICs automatically would do no harm, or would
it???
Anyway, thanks to Nathan, I am back on the straight and narrow :)
Regards,
Patrick O'Reilly.
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