Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 16:17:12 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Gateway? Message-ID: <73288.1400368632@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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Forgive me, please for such a rudimentary sort of question. I've been doing IP networking for more than 15 years, but I never really plumbed the depths, and thus I only know the basics. Quite simply, I'd like to know if the defaultrouter= IPv4 address specified in my /etc/rc.conf file should be the same as whatever I normally see as the first hop in an outgoing traceroute. I ask because for me these two are apparently not the same. Here's what I have: defaultrouter="69.62.255.254" and here is one example of a recent outgoing traceroute: % traceroute 74.125.239.148 traceroute to 74.125.239.148 (74.125.239.148), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 86.255-62-69.res.dyn.surewest.net (69.62.255.86) 28.884 ms 31.395 ms 30.024 ms 2 216.0.55.209 (216.0.55.209) 26.486 ms 26.024 ms 25.850 ms 3 ae1d0.mcr1.roseville-ca.us.xo.net (216.156.1.77) 25.384 ms 27.298 ms 27.060 ms 4 vb1510.rar3.sanjose-ca.us.xo.net (216.156.0.153) 27.289 ms 34.022 ms 36.213 ms 5 207.88.14.226.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.14.226) 26.993 ms 26.567 ms 25.568 ms 6 216.156.84.30.ptr.us.xo.net (216.156.84.30) 24.800 ms 26.432 ms 25.845 ms 7 209.85.249.5 (209.85.249.5) 26.033 ms 110.066 ms 28.663 ms 8 66.249.95.31 (66.249.95.31) 26.985 ms 25.285 ms 28.066 ms 9 nuq05s02-in-f20.1e100.net (74.125.239.148) 26.895 ms 27.434 ms 27.063 ms P.S. I don't know if it makes any difference or not, but I'm on a residential DSL line, I have two assigned static IP addresses, and I have been told that the router in my closet is set to "bridged" mode. P.P.S. I am exploring all this because I have been having increasingly serious but maddeningly intermittent connectivity problems for some several weeks now. The timing when these problems began appeared, perhaps only coincidently, to closely coincide with the date on which I was "upgraded" from a 3Mbps DSL line to a 6Mbps DSL line, at my request. (And I do wonder now if that change may have somehow produced my current intermittent non-connectivity. Unfortunately, my ISP was recently bought out by a bigger company, and it now appears that the new bigger company no longer employs any persons in either their first or second level tech support teams who even know what a gateway is.)
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