Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:05:00 +0900 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: route to host on same network Message-ID: <m2r7p5bqyr.wl@minion.local.neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <20040913171931.GA5368@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20040913171931.GA5368@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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At Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:19:31 +0200, John Hay wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm busy trying to port mobilemesh (www.mitre.org/tech_transfer/mobilemesh) > to FreeBSD and run into a problem. > > The way mobilemesh works is that you use a subnet for the wireless > network and then it use host routes to route packets to hosts that are > not directly visible. Say for instance that you have hosts 1, 2 and 3 > on the 10.0.0.0/24 subnet and machines 1 and 3 can't directly see each > other, but both can see host 2, then the mobilemesh routing protocol > will try to add a host route to the other machine through host 2. On > host 1 it will do something like "route add 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.2" and > on host 3 it will do "route add 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2". This seems to work > on Linux (where mobilemesh was developed), but I have been unable to > get it to work on FreeBSD. I have also tried various ways with and > without -interface and -iface, but none works. Is it supposed to be > possible in FreeBSD and if so does someone know how? > What "doesn't work" as in what error, if any, do you get? Or does it just silently fail? Also, what does your routing table look like before and after the commands (netstat -rn). Later, GEorge
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