From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 10:47:25 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 11E0237B405 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:47:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.karamazov.org (h162-040-089-010.adsl.navix.net [162.40.89.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D4843FA3 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:47:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smoberly@karamazov.org) Received: from karamazov.org (mail.karamazov.org [10.0.0.11]) by mail.karamazov.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1DIlJVV092830; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:47:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from smoberly@karamazov.org) Received: from 65.221.169.187 (SquirrelMail authenticated user smoberly) by mail.karamazov.org with HTTP; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:47:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <50459.65.221.169.187.1045162040.squirrel@mail.karamazov.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:47:20 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: network issue From: "Scott A. Moberly" To: In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 > 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? yup might consider setting one (say bsd1) up as a firewall/natd machine and then routing through that. Adds expandability (and security of course :) ). -- Scott A. Moberly smoberly@karamazov.org Turner's Definition A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message