Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:36:53 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How configure a point to point connection? Message-ID: <20180319113653.b24768dae3c1f5535d73acaa@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <f84b12f7-6ca8-9ad5-7ace-c5c153ec4b13@imrcom.fr> References: <f84b12f7-6ca8-9ad5-7ace-c5c153ec4b13@imrcom.fr>
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:53:48 +0100 Martin LEUSCH <sce.tech@imrcom.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to add a public IP of my hosting provider to a FreeBSD VM. To do > this I have to reach a remote gateway with a point to point connection > but I didn't how how to do that on FreeBSD. Under Debian GNU/Linux, I > just have to add the gateway to the "pointopoint" parameters in > /etc/network/interfaces: > > iface eth0 inet static > address my.public.ip > netmask 255.255.255.255 > pointopoint my.provider.gw > gateway my.provider.gw > > I tried the following commands: > > ifconfig vtnet0 inet my.public.ip my.provider.gw netmask 255.255.255.255 > route add default my.provider.gw > > When I tried to add the default route, I get "Network is unreachable". Try losing the netmask 255.255.255.255 which puts only a single address on the segment making the default route unreachable. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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