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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:41:00 -0700
From:      "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
To:        Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jahanur R Subedar <jahanur@jjsoft.com>
Subject:   Re: network setup
Message-ID:  <3945831C.DF881DD9@home.com>
References:  <39412435.671FB8C1@home.com> <1590.000612@home.com>

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Ben Williams wrote:
> 
>    Hrm ... the problem here is my ISP gave me those (CCC.DDD.78.61 = gw,
> CCC.DDD.78.62 = my_host, 255.255.255.252 netmask) numbers. That part
> of the setup actually went pretty well when I got a supported NIC in
> the box. While I found drivers for the dm NIC (the one C|Net's
> selling) apparently either the card didn't want to co-exist with two
> pn's or the driver was/is buggy. I actually have the .62 machine
> talking to .61 and the rest of the world through it. My next problem
> is the 64 IP block I got that starts on 144 and runs to 207 .. my
> FreeBSD boxes want a /26 to end on 209, though if I specify '...
> broadcast CCC.DDD.72.207' it will let me set up an apparently non-CIDR
> block of IP's.
>    The current situation is basically "it was a bad/unsupported NIC,
> my gw problem is fixed now."  I am still interested in learning how
> to route traffic in & out of each NIC based on something like OSPF or
> BGP or the like. Any clues there?

OSPF, RIP, BGP and others like them, are routing protocols,
their purpose is to exchange among routers the routes to
specific networks, it is of no use for a network that has
one link to the Internet, for such topology, you only need
to configure your clients with a default route pointing to
the gate machine.

raymundo

> 
> Thanks to Jahanur R Subedar and Raymundo M. Vega for sending me
> pointers and helping me get this fixed.
> 
> --Ben Williams
> mailto:received@email dot com
>


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