Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 19:25:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with freebsd router Message-ID: <19970822192508.35765@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708211341.JAA01219@bigbrother.rust.net>; from Michael W. Lucas on Thu, Aug 21, 1997 at 09:41:48AM -0400 References: <199708211341.JAA01219@bigbrother.rust.net>
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On Thu, Aug 21, 1997 at 09:41:48AM -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% It would be nice to see the dmesg output for this, though I'm not sure that's the problem. > 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 Do both nets go to the Internet? Otherwise it's unlikely that you need routed. Most people don't. Anyway, it would be interesting to see the output of netstat -rn before and after the attempted ifconfig up. And are you really setting your netmask to 0xfffffff8?a Greg
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