From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 19:31:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from TK147108.tuwien.teleweb.at (TK147108.tuwien.teleweb.at [195.34.147.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3D137BB00 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from satyr@TK147108.tuwien.teleweb.at) Received: from satyr by TK147108.tuwien.teleweb.at with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 1338aN-0003yQ-00; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 04:43:51 +0200 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 04:43:51 +0200 From: "Marinos J . Yannikos" To: Colin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: routing bug(?) persists (PR 16318) Message-ID: <20000617044351.U24505@TK147108.telekabel.at> Reply-To: nino@inode.at References: <200006151644.JAA02187@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Colin on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:17:13PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ***==> Marinos J. Yannikos ***==> http://pobox.com/~mjy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message