Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:54:24 +0900 From: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> To: "Martin and Belinda Richardson" <m.b.richardson@keypoint.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default route problem Message-ID: <20040128105152.F0F5.LUKEK@meibin.net> In-Reply-To: <GLELIOIAJDFCFKAKALEOCEJHCDAA.m.b.richardson@keypoint.com.au> References: <GLELIOIAJDFCFKAKALEOCEJHCDAA.m.b.richardson@keypoint.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:54:08 +1100 "Martin and Belinda Richardson" <m.b.richardson@keypoint.com.au> granted us these pearls of wisdom: > Hi everyone, > I am having a problem with a gateway I am building for a friend. I have > initially set the box up on my home network and have set this box to use my > gateway temporarily while I fetch some ports etc. Now that I have removed it > from my network, and edited /etc/rc.conf to set it up to act as a gateway, > it STILL sets the default route to my old gateway. I cant find any config > file that says "add default route" or anything. I have not set defaultroute > in /etc/rc.conf, and it is set to "NO" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf! > If I use /stand/sysinstall to configure the interface, I notice that there > is a value already there for the ipV4 gateway (my gateway). deleting this > here does not work. There must be a file somewhere that I have not seen > causing me the trouble. Please help! > AFAIK the only place you need to make changes is /etc/rc.conf then either reboot or sh /etc/netstart and you should be good to go. You could manually add that route though whilst the machine is up, # route add default 192.168.X.X and that should be OK too. what is the output of netstat -rn ? HTH LukeK
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040128105152.F0F5.LUKEK>