Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:15:51 +0100 (BST) From: Lawrence Commander <lcommand@ee.ucl.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using dip: no route to host Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907071009000.27384-100000@frog> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907021152380.98238-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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(replying for the mail archive) On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Doug White wrote: > You don't set a default route, unless that's what 'default' does. Check > netstat -rn. The routing semantics may have changed so dip doesn't know > how to set routes anymore. > > > >> default > > Destination net/address set to 'default' > > >> print Local IP ... $locip > > Local IP ... 193.60.255.6 > > >> print Remote IP .. $rmtip > > Remote IP .. 193.60.255.5 > > >> print Netmask .... $netmask > > Netmask .... 255.255.255.0 > > >> print MTU ........ $mtu > > MTU ........ 1500 > [...] > > --- 144.82.100.41 ping statistics --- > > Note this is off your local subnet. > OK I got it to work (Thanks!!) by simply doing the following: localhost# route add default 193.60.255.37 add net default: gateway 193.60.255.37 Now I still don't understand what's happening as according to the dip man page that's exactly what 'default' does in a dip script (it says it executes 'route add default $rmtip'). Anyway, it works so I'm happy, thanks again. Lawrence. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Lawrence Commander, Tel: (+44) 0171 419 3990 | | Research Fellow, Fax: (+44) 0171 387 4350 | | Dept of Elec. Eng., | | University College London, | | London WC1E 7JE e-mail: lcommand@ee.ucl.ac.uk | | UK. http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~lcommand | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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