From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 14 21:40:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web1105.mail.yahoo.com (web1105.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11B0F14DA6 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnbsd@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19990815043728.11909.rocketmail@web1105.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.122.199.13] by web1105.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:37:28 PDT Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:37:28 -0700 (PDT) From: john holland Subject: routing table/natd problem upon ISP disconnect To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello - I found when setting up natd to "IP masquerade" a local net to the internet through a modem that, when the modem link went down and I brought it back up, the routing table acted strangely and I ended up having to reboot. the symptoms were: netstat -r would hang with just the header - if I deleted the default route to the Internet through tun0, netstat -r worked fine I couldn't ping the ISP successfully, let alone a host on the Net. I could see that it was trying to though as the transmit light on the modem was blinking with the pings. the internal 192.168 net was fine through all of this. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message