From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 9:47:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51CF737B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFD143F3F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1DHlRrX003193; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:47:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E4BDA2F.6010003@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:47:27 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: network issue References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message