From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 15:30:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA12645 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:30:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA12632 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA25675; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:27:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd025672; Wed Nov 19 15:27:43 1997 Message-ID: <34737573.4487EB71@whistle.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:25:39 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Hovey CC: Mark Cheeseman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default router not on network References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk draw a picture of what you want. it makes it clearer. do they want to use address translation? I'm not sure I understand the problem. They are basically being lazy, assuming you have legal address numbers, theyjust don't want to have to advertise your addresses. Steve Hovey wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Mark Cheeseman wrote: > > > 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". > > If it works for linux, then linux is broken. Unless they will give you an > IP in the subnet their router is in - in which case you can set an alias. > > Also - how do they think that they can route back to you otherwise? > > > > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Steve Hovey > Chief Engineer > BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! > ------------------------------------------------------------------