From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 21:50:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D9F416A4B3 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9FE143FD7 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@dlfws.net) Received: from adsl-67-125-196-67.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO dlfws.net) (the?freak@sbcglobal.net@67.125.196.67 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 04:50:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3F790B9E.6010101@dlfws.net> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:50:38 -0700 From: Thanatos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Peter J. Blok" References: <200309282126.53992.pblok@inter.NL.net> In-Reply-To: <200309282126.53992.pblok@inter.NL.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple ISP, one default gw X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:50:40 -0000 Peter J. Blok wrote: >Hi, > >I have two ISP, one gives my a dynamic IP and has the default route thru DHCP. >The other has a fixed IP and obviously no default route. > >I would like to place a webserver behind the fixed IP address, but it is not >able to answer because there is no route defined to the webclient. The >default route is somewhere else and the request on port 80 can come from >anywhere. > >On Solaris this works because it learns the route and creates a host route >back. Can you do this on FreeBSD as well? > >Peter > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Hi Peter, The last time I had a fixed IP from an ISP they also provided a default route and a dns server. Otherwise you will not be able to get out of their network. Hope that helps, Thanatos