Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:31:03 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: john holland <johnbsd@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: routing table/natd problem upon ISP disconnect Message-ID: <199908171431.PAA00921@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:37:28 PDT." <19990815043728.11909.rocketmail@web1105.mail.yahoo.com>
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Are you using the -dynamic switch to natd ? It's supposed to deal with this. > Hello - > I found when setting up natd to "IP masquerade" a > local net to the internet through a modem that, when > the modem link went down and I brought it back up, the > routing table acted strangely and I ended up having to > reboot. > > the symptoms were: > > netstat -r would hang with just the header - > if I deleted the default route to the Internet through > tun0, netstat -r worked fine > > I couldn't ping the ISP successfully, let alone a host > on the Net. I could see that it was trying to though > as the transmit light on the modem was blinking with > the pings. > > the internal 192.168 net was fine through all of this. > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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