From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 17:29:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grover.logicsquad.net (CPE-144-137-193-52.sa.bigpond.net.au [144.137.193.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4EC337B400 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:29:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1855 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 01:29:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO logicsquad.net) (192.168.0.1) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 01:29:09 -0000 Received: from 203.49.60.114 (SquirrelMail authenticated user paulh) by grover.logicsquad.net with HTTP; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:59:09 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <3242.203.49.60.114.1011403749.squirrel@grover.logicsquad.net> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:59:09 +1030 (CST) Subject: Re: BSD network hired guns? From: "Paul A. Hoadley" To: In-Reply-To: <000701c1a084$e831f580$0301a8c0@clicknetwork.com> References: <000701c1a084$e831f580$0301a8c0@clicknetwork.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: Reply-To: paulh@logicsquad.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Hi Clark, [I've Cc:'d the list -- others may be able to spot the problem quicker than me.] Clark Mankin said: > Actually there's nothing between me and the default router. Linux > doesn't use that term. Linux works with "default gateway" which is > what my telecom provider calls it. Where BSD got the idea to call it a > "default router" instead of a default gateway is a mystery. Seems to > me that if the 2nd largest telecom company calls it a default gateway > that ought to be good enough for BSD! I think the terminolgy used in rc.conf is reasonable: the object that provides the default route off your LAN is called the default router. Despite that... [Some descriptions snipped] I wonder whether you could actually draw a picture -- just plain old ASCII art will do, in a fixed-width font. From your description, the topology is still not clear to me. Although you seem to imply by description that the gateway to the telco is on your LAN, I can't reconcile that with your previous statements about having to route via a gateway of 0.0.0.0 under Linux to get to this gateway. Include actual IP addresses. -- Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net mailto:paul.hoadley@student.adelaide.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message