From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 3:12:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE63637B41F for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 03:12:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:12:16 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16RWu6-00019p-00; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:09:50 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:09:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Thomas Cannon Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , Clark Mankin , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: BSD network hired guns? In-Reply-To: <20020117155808.X97701-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> Message-ID: 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 On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Thomas Cannon wrote: > > > gateway of 0.0.0.0 and unfortunately BSD is completely unwilling to accept > > > > Your gateway is 0.0.0.0 ? That's . . . um . . . rather unconventional, isn't > > it? I thought that was a reserved (illegal) IP address. In fact, I'm really > > pretty sure that it is. Does Linux really accept a 0.0.0.0 address? > > Nah, that's plenty legal. It just means that the whole internet is on the > local LAN. 0.0.0.0 means "this host". While it's true that every packet destined for the outside world has to start with the originating machine, what seems to be going on here is that some Linuxism is confusing the issue. They both use the same protocols behind the scenes; however, some idiosyncrasy of routing tables might be going on. Could the original poster just supply an "ASCII art" diagram of the network? The correct settings should be evident from that. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Prolog in JavaScript: http://tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmjg/logic/prolog-latest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message