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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:47:27 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: network issue
Message-ID:  <3E4BDA2F.6010003@potentialtech.com>
References:  <OE309ww1WySvX5w0Yg80001020d@hotmail.com>

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Brian Henning wrote:
> My local network (192.168.1.0) consists of two machine BSD1 (192.168.1.40) and
> BSD2 (192.168.1.42).
> There is a third machine (192.168.1.254, ip address from isp) that acts as a
> gateway router. When my internet connection goes down for whatever reason I
> loose connections in my local network. For example, i can't ping 192.168.1.40
> from 192.168.1.42. is there any explaination for this?

Can you give more details about the topology?  Does the gateway have 2 NICs?
I assume there's a hub on the inside?  Please post the output from ifconfig
on the gateway machine.

> is it because my default
> route is set to be external?

No, that doesn't normally cause problems to a local network.  When our Internet
goes down it doesn't affect internal traffic in the slightest. This is a rather
strange problem.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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