From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 7:59:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-107.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536F014F82 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03820; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:28:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00921; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:31:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199908171431.PAA00921@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: john holland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: routing table/natd problem upon ISP disconnect In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:37:28 PDT." <19990815043728.11909.rocketmail@web1105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:31:03 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message