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Date:      Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:41:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   problems with freebsd router
Message-ID:  <199708211341.JAA01219@bigbrother.rust.net>

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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%

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

Obviously, I'm don't quite know what I'm doing.  Help?  Please?

Thanks,
Michael



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