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Subject: Re: problems with freebsd router
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Oh,

And then after doing that you'll need to give it routes through route add.


At 09:41 AM 8/21/97 -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
>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<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        inet 209.69.72.162 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 209.69.72.255
>        ether 00:a0:24:ca:12:c8
>vx1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        ether 00:20:af:f5:c4:0e
>lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> 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
>
>