From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 13:53:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA02882 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:53:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from junior.apnpc.com.au (junior.apnpc.com.au [203.12.233.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA02871 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:52:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cheese@apnpc.com.au) Received: from zen.apnpc.com.au (zen.apnpc.com.au [203.12.233.17]) by junior.apnpc.com.au (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA26665 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:48:42 GMT Received: from gremlin2 (unverified [203.12.233.30]) by zen.apnpc.com.au (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:56:43 +1100 Message-ID: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Mark Cheeseman" Organization: APN Computing Group Pty Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:51:13 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Default router not on network Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to get a couple of FreeBSD boxes running at an ISP, who wants us to use an address not in our class C as the default route. FreeBSD doesn't seem to want to know about this. The ISP is adamant that they can't put an alias from our address block on their router, and adds words to the effect of "it works for Linux". How can I convince FreeBSD (2.1.7, btw) to route through such an address? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Cheeseman, Manager, APN Online cheese@apnpc.com.au Tel +61 2 9936 8680 http://www.zdnet.com.au/ http://www.gamespot.com.au/ Fax +61 2 9955 8871