From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 17:31:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA22534 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:31:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA22507 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:31:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA12346; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:44:09 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199711200044.AAA12346@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Mark Cheeseman" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default router not on network In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:51:13 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:44:09 +0000 From: Brian Somers 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? Try: root route add 1.2.3.4 -iface de0 where 1.2.3.4 is the address of the router and de0 is your interface. It'll "work for FreeBSD" too :-) > 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 -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....