From owner-freebsd-ipfw Fri Oct 27 14:13:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C0037B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA57099; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:12:31 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:12:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: super@purpledreams.com Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing Problem In-Reply-To: <20001027205229.448.qmail@purpledreams.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 super@purpledreams.com wrote: This problem has been solved (recently) in a previous thread. Search the archives. > I am having a weird problem and hope you can help. > (I realise it's not 100% an ipfw problem, but FreeBSD-Hackers > has WAY too much traffic, and I am running ipfw/natd so it > kinda fits :) > > I'm running 4.0-RELEASE and have just switched ISPs. > > (The overlap while I have two means I can send this message :) > > The old one was an @home connection, plain and simple. > > The new one is an ADSL connection, and the specs I was given are > > IP : 64.x.y.z > Netmask : 26 bits (255.255.255.192) > Default gateway : 10.10.240.1 > > This works fine in windows (!) but it won't work in FreeBSD > (and, frankly, I think FreeBSD is 'right' :) > > It won't use a default gateway that's not available on a local network. > This is just plain proper : you shouldn't be able to! how would it > know where it is???? > > But, that's what I have. Does anyone know a way of forcing > FreeBSD to acknowledge the presence of a host that is not > on a logical local subnet but is on a physical connection? > > Can i force an ARP entry and hope that's enough? > > It's a shame this works in windows! :) > > Dana Lacoste > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message > Nick Rogness - Drive defensively. Buy a tank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message