From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 06:45:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA20963 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 06:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigbrother.rust.net (bigbrother.rust.net [209.69.72.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA20949 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 06:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by bigbrother.rust.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA01219 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:41:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael W. Lucas" Message-Id: <199708211341.JAA01219@bigbrother.rust.net> Subject: problems with freebsd router To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:41:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm trying to use a FreeBSD box (2.2.1) as a router between two different Ethernet segments. The second Ethernet card doesn't work properly. The Ethernet cards are 3C590s. I've rebuilt the kernel to allow vx1, and set gateway=yes in /etc/sysconfig, as per the mailing list archives. Both cards have IP addresses set in sysconfig, and routerflog is set to -s, per the man page. Upon boot, the machine recognizes both cards, i.e.: pedicular 9% ifconfig -a vx0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 209.69.72.162 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 209.69.72.255 ether 00:a0:24:ca:12:c8 vx1: flags=8802 mtu 1500 ether 00:20:af:f5:c4:0e lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 pedicular 10% Oddly, if I do "ifconfig vx1 up", the card comes up. I can manually assign it an IP address, but I get errors like: Aug 21 05:42:41 pedicular routed[67]: punt RTM_ADD without gateway Aug 21 05:42:41 pedicular routed[67]: write(rt_sock) RTM_ADD 209.69.36.128/29 -- > 209.69.36.129: File exists Obviously, I'm don't quite know what I'm doing. Help? Please? Thanks, Michael