From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 16:37:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stereophonic.noops.org (adsl-63-195-97-84.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6001337B417 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:36:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 98459 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jan 2002 00:37:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jan 2002 00:37:00 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:37:00 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Cannon To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg Cc: Subject: Re: BSD network hired guns? In-Reply-To: <3C476AD3.7010901@rambo.simx.org> Message-ID: <20020117163129.S97701-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> 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 > Just a quick question: > If the fbsd box in question is assigned an IP address in the > 209.180.198.17 space with netmask 255.255.255.248, how will that make it > believe that all machines are on the local lan? > Im no expert, but I thought it was the netmask that decided the size of > the lan, not the default route? Yes, you are absolutely right. I was only picking at the 0.0.0.0 gateway having limited use, and the machine does indeed look at it's netmask to see what's local or remote. With a netmask limiting the scope of the local LAN and a gateway of 0.0.0.0 the box will just say "I don't know how to get there" and complain. Much like it would (or should) if you had a netmask of 0.0.0.0 and tried to tell it it also had a gateway. In fact, that's something I might have to try sometime, just to see what happens. Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message