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Date:      Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:03:11 -0500
From:      "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>
To:        "'Fabian Keil'" <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>, "'Jason Morgan'" <jwm-freebsd@sentinelchicken.net>
Cc:        'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Quick Routing Question
Message-ID:  <20051101140317.E7A4943D6A@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051101115747.42008117@localhost>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Keil
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:58 AM
> To: Jason Morgan
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: Quick Routing Question
> 
> Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd@sentinelchicken.net> wrote:
> 
> > I am setting up a wireless subnet and, while the gateway (FreeBSD
> > system) is communicating fine with the wireless router, my other 
> > subnet is not able to connect to the wireless router. Here is a 
> > diagram of my network, I think it's fairly typical.
> > 
> > 
> >                          Wired Subnet (10.0.0.x)
> >                             /
> >                            /
> > Internet <-- FreeBSD Machine 
> >                            \
> >                             \
> >                          Wireless Subnet (192.168.1.x)
> > 
> > 
> > The 'wired' interface on the FreeBSD machine has an IP of 10.0.0.1, 
> > with the 'wireless' IP being 192.168.1.1.  Now, the FreeBSD machine 
> > and the wireless router (192.168.1.2) communicate fine as does the 
> > wired subnet; however, I am not able to connect from a 
> 10.0.0.x client 
> > to the wireless router. After running traceroute, etc, it 
> seems that 
> > the FreeBSD machine is simply not routing the data from one 
> subnet to 
> > the other. I've verified that it's not the firewall 
> blocking packets. 
> > How do I get these subnets to communicate?
> 
> Did you put gateway_enable=YES in rc.conf?
> Did you read
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/net
> work-routing.html>?

Also, what does:

# netstat -rn

...output?

Steve

> 
> Fabian
> --
> http://www.fabiankeil.de/
> 




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