From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 1 18:32:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6640F14C38 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 18:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06546 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 17:45:58 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Seeking Tutorial on Routing From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 17:45:58 -0700 Message-ID: <6544.933554758@monkeys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A couple of nights ago, I came up against the limits of both my knowlege and also the FreeBSD documentation I have available to me (which includes a copy of `The Complete FreeBSD'). (It was actually a rather annoying experience... not only to not know, but seemingly not to be able to find out the things I wanted to know.) Ok. So where can I go to learn everything there is to know about routing in relation to FreeBSD (2.2.x and later)? Specifically, I'd like to know a lot more about all of those funny things I see when I do "netstat -n -r". In particular, I'd like to learn all about "cloning", the loopback interface, what things might cause a link to be marked as "down", and also the underlying mechanics that come into play when one assigns multiple IP addresses to a single networking card. (A lot of this stuff seems to be in the "black art" category. Bu that's just my impression.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message