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Date:      Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:00:11 +0000
From:      David Johnson <david@usermode.org>
To:        "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Networking problem
Message-ID:  <01042217001100.00271@weathertop>
In-Reply-To: <009001c0cb7c$eab02710$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <01042215414303.00192@weathertop> <009001c0cb7c$eab02710$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Sunday April 22 2001 10:38 pm, Matthew Emmerton wrote:

> If you don't have a default gateway, then it's no wonder you can't ping
> outside of your network.
>
> From a shell prompt, issue 'route add default xxx.yyy.zzz.1', where
> 'xxx.yyy.zzz.1' is your default router.

I'll give this one a shot. I *should* have a default gateway, since one is 
listed in rc.conf...

> As for why this isn't properly set up when you boot, I'm not quite sure.
> Does dmesg give any useful clues?

I'll take a look in rc to see how it sets up the default router. I'll need to 
boot back over into FreeBSD to get you the dmesg. I didn't see anything 
unusual there, though.

Hmmm, since I just heard that 4.3 is out, I may install it today or tomorrow 
anyway...

-- 
David Johnson
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