From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 9:55:37 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 696DD37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:55:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76A1C43FAF for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:55:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: network issue References: From: Dan Pelleg Date: 13 Feb 2003 12:55:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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" writes: > 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? is it because my default > route is set to be external? > I shouldn't be, but it's possible to misconfigure BSD1 and BSD2 so it happens. Please post the ifconfig output for both of them. Also, why is your default route "external" and not 192.168.1.254? Or am I not understanding you? -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message