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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!boingo.amil.jhu.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!chsun!news.eunet.ch!usenet From: cleto@e-link.ch (Cleto Pescia) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem: FreeBSD 2.1.5R loses routes when using IP aliasing Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:03:10 GMT Organization: EUnet AG Lines: 40 Message-ID: <328c4bdc.8649408@news.eunet.ch> References: <328a4d0a.201497@news.eunet.ch> <nzshgms5teb.fsf@deborah-ss20.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.72.189.5 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 On 14 Nov 1996 12:11:24 -0800, deborah@deborah-ss20.cisco.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett) wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5R server connected to a Cisco 2501 router and I > would like to set it up as a PPP server. I use the netmask > 255.255.255.240 on my Class C, in order to have subnets of 14 hosts > each. Since I want to devote one subnet to the PPP clients, and > applying the rule (from the doc.) that PPP server and clients must be > on the same subnet, I started to define an IP alias for my FreeBSD's > ed0 [193.72.189.2], following the doc's suggestions. That is: > > ifconfig ed0 inet 193.72.189.17 netmask 255.255.255.240 alias > route add -host 193.72.189.17 127.0.0.1 0 > > Everything seems to be working fine for a while, but then the FreeBSD > "looses" the route to the Cisco, since it expires. > > Question: What am I doing wrong? > > >You're using static routes, yet you probably didn't turn >off routed in the FreeBSD box. routed was indeed running. Now it is switched off in /etc/sysconfig. > If you run netstat -r on the FreeBSD box, is the default route missing? No, it is there. That is, I have an entry marked "default" and this entry remains in the table even after the "real" route expires. > And can you >re-add it using 'route add default <IP_ADDR>', and then it disappears >after a while again? If so, routed running is probably your problem. Hmm, sorry, but doing "route add default <MY_CISCO_IP_ADDR>" doesn't help very much... I'm still loosing the route to the outside world. Cleto Pescia cleto@e-link.ch