Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:32:12 From: gjukema@jukeware.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to ping through WAN Message-ID: <20010803203459.F328837B40A@hub.freebsd.org>
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> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:06:24PM -0700, Geoff Jukema wrote: > > [snip] > > > My understanding would be to do the following : > > > > 1) make sure the "defaultrouter" setting in rc.conf was set to the WAN router > > (in this example, 10.10.20.192) > > 2) make the subnet masks equal to whatever the windows clients have (in this > > case, they all have 255.255.255.192) > > > > I don't have access to this machine at the moment, and the only thing I *know* > > that is incorrect is the subnet mask - I have the subnet mask set to > > 255.255.0.0, whereas the windows machines have 255.255.255.192. > > That sure sounds like your problem. If you know that is wrong, why are > you asking us. Fix that and see if it works. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu Sorry, I didn't mean to say "I know" - and all the documentation I found regarding the explanation of subnet masks, I couldn't make sense of, so I was only guessing that changing the subnet mask would actually make a difference in this scenario. I apologize if my question was inappropriate. BTW - changing the subnet mask did work - but I fail to find an explanation that actaully makes sense what the subnet mask actually does, and why it would make a difference to the outside WAN. Of course, this isn't a FreeBSD question any longer, so I'll shut up now and look elsewhere. Funny, this is my third question I've asked on the FreeBSD questions list since 1998 - and again I feel like an ass for doing it. I guess I'm out now - hopefully there's more innings left in this game :) Thanks, Geoff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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