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From: Lars Fredriksen <lars@odin-corporation.com>
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To: Stefan Bethke <stefan.bethke@hanse.de>
Cc: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: default route not set up??
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Thanks for setting me straight! I am backtracking trying to find out what I
did wrong initially when I tried to set it up. I certainly botched the
debugging part :-(

Lars
Stefan Bethke wrote:

> Don't!
>
> --On Son, 2. Mai 1999 12:44 Uhr -0500 Lars Fredriksen
> <lars@odin-corporation.com> wrote:
>
> > So rc.conf should read: (example from my setup)
> >
> >
> > defaultrouter="YES"             # Set to default gateway (or NO).
> > static_routes="local"           # Set to static route list (or leave
> > empty).
> > route_local=" -net <net ip>  <host>"
> > route_default=" default <host>"
> >
> > So, two actions are needed. The route_default line from rc.network should
> > get deleted, and the comment
> > in rc.conf for the defaultrouter variable should be clearer.
> >
> > If others agree, I can go and commit the fixes for that ....
>
> Don't!  Look at rc.network again.  If you don't get it, run the code with
> set -vx, and see what happens.

> The correct entry still is:
>
> defaultrouter="1.2.3.4"
>
> For your convenience, I'm posting the complete snipped again:
>
>     # Configure routing
>
>     if [ "x$defaultrouter" != "xNO" ] ; then
>             static_routes="default ${static_routes}"
>             route_default="default ${defaultrouter}"
>     fi
>
>     # Set up any static routes.  This should be done before router
> discovery.
>     if [ "x${static_routes}" != "x" ]; then
>             for i in ${static_routes}; do
>                     eval route_args=\$route_${i}
>                     route add ${route_args}
>             done
>     fi
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Bethke
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