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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:50:38 -0700
From:      Thanatos <lists@dlfws.net>
To:        "Peter J. Blok" <pblok@inter.NL.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multiple ISP, one default gw
Message-ID:  <3F790B9E.6010101@dlfws.net>
In-Reply-To: <200309282126.53992.pblok@inter.NL.net>
References:  <200309282126.53992.pblok@inter.NL.net>

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Peter J. Blok wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have two ISP, one gives my a dynamic IP and has the default route thru DHCP. 
>The other has a fixed IP and obviously no default route.
>
>I would like to place a webserver behind the fixed IP address, but it is not 
>able to answer because there is no route defined to the webclient. The 
>default route is somewhere else and the request on port 80 can come from 
>anywhere.
>
>On Solaris this works because it learns the route and creates a host route 
>back. Can you do this on FreeBSD as well?
>
>Peter
>
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Hi Peter,

The last time I had a fixed IP from an ISP they also provided a default 
route and a dns server. Otherwise you will not be able to get out of 
their network.

Hope that helps,
Thanatos



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