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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 2000 04:43:51 +0200
From:      "Marinos J . Yannikos" <mjy@pobox.com>
To:        Colin <cwass99@home.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: routing bug(?) persists (PR 16318)
Message-ID:  <20000617044351.U24505@TK147108.telekabel.at>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000616211713.cwass99@home.com>; from Colin on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:17:13PM -0400
References:  <200006151644.JAA02187@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <XFMail.000616211713.cwass99@home.com>

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On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:17:13PM -0400, Colin wrote:
> [...] I honestly see no reason that what
> you're doing should work at all.  Effectively you're telling your system that
> the way to connect to networks that it's address is not part of is to send a
> message to a host that is on a network it's address is not part of.  It's a
> networking catch-22 ;)

It's not exactly a "catch-22", since the (perfectly valid) static route to
the default gateway's network takes precedence over the above rule (the
default route).

> Either you or your ISP needs to alias the adapter on
> this set of subnets, and if you're not the only person on this multi-netted
> section, it really should be them.

The ISP is giving away lots of /29 subnets and this is a kludge to provide
each client with 1 more useable IP. It's not easy to get many IPs these days.

>  This is definately a routing bug, but it's in Win and Linux if they alloow
> this with no error.

Windows apparently allows the configuration even without the static route to
the gateway's network, which is very odd.

-mjy
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