From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 27 14:55:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from databus.databus.com (databus.databus.com [198.186.154.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5196937B7CA for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barney@databus.databus.com) From: Barney Wolff To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Networking) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:52 EST Subject: Re: Why does this work (routing) Content-Length: 816 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: <38dfe6e10.71cd@databus.databus.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You might want to look at the netmasks on the two boxes - your box may believe (perhaps even correctly) that it can get to 43.1 over the Ethernet, while the Sun box may have a more restrictive netmask. Barney Wolff > From: Stan Brown > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:33:37 -0500 (EST) > > Here is the scenario. I have a single homed box laets say > 170.85.109.64. It's default router is 170.85.109.1 In another building > I have a machine that connects to the outside wrld let's asy 32.77.3.5 > Now the router at 170.85.109.1 _does not_ have a route to 32.77.x.x but > a router in the other building at 170.85.43.1 does. So I did > > route add net 32.77.0.0 170.85.43.1 > > On the FreeBSD box. Works like a cahrm The Sun box insists that all > gateways be on a directly conected newtork. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message