From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 12:47:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mg132-105.ricochet.net [204.179.132.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B4737C3A2; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00547; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:51:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006151951.MAA00547@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Nick Rogness Cc: "Marinos J . Yannikos" , Mike Smith , nino@inode.at, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routing bug(?) persists (PR 16318) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:40:26 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:51:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >My ISP claims that the configuration above works trivially under > >Linux and Windows NT, > > I would like to see that. > > Mr. Smith is correct. Why not set your gateway as the next-hop > address to your ISP upstream within the 195.58.183.77 network? > > Another option would to run an IP tunnel between your network and > the gateway using gif or nos-tun. > > The whole question is, What are you trying to accomplish? I spent some more time thinking about this, and I think the deal is that if you do this on both sides, you achieve the result where you can crosstalk between the two networks without requiring a gateway. It's kinda ugly, but it's basically what route add -iface is there for, and it makes sense that if ARP is happy ARPing for these hosts, the route code should also consider these hosts as directly connected. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message