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Date:      Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:27:59 -0500
From:      "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
To:        Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: route pointing to a gateway that's not on net 
Message-ID:  <200303051827.h25IRxF05514@akiva.homer.att.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:57:55 PST." <30622.192.85.47.1.1046887075.squirrel@new.host.name> 

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Well it's not the way I wanted it, but it's the way I have to try and work
with.

I tried the route add net 10.0.0.0 -interface (whatever)
and that didn't work for me.



----------  In Response to your message -------------

>  Date:  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:57:55 -0800 (PST)
>  To:  <jwb@homer.att.com>
>  From:  "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
>  Subject:  Re: route pointing to a gateway that's not on net
>
>  >
>  > I was recently following a thread on tech-netbsd that was discussing the
>  > routing tables when the gateway address was on a 10.x.x.x network while
>  > the machine was assigned a 209.122.66.x address.  The long and short of
>  > the discussion (as I understand the discussion) was that this was that
>  > while it can be accessed via windose and Linux (
>  >       > > On Linux, we could do this to get around that minor problem:
>  > route add -host 192.168.14.88 dev eth0
>  >   ) that is was an evil, ugy illegal network route and that it not
>  > possible, will not be implemented in NetBSD.
>  
>  It is all of that.  ;)  I've used this in a network setup where there were
>  multiple local links that terminated at a remote router, and the desire
>  was that traffic be able to flow over any of them.  But it leaves a bad
>  taste in my brain, like when Cisco refers to "layer three switching".
>  
>  > Now since my cable ISP has me provised it this manner, and since I can't
>  > find a method to get out from FreeBSD using the route command.  I was
>  > wondering if a) I missed something and there is some option for the
>  > route command that allows to route to be setup, or if not will netgraph
>  > allow me to setup this route?
>  
>  I think you do it the same way.  Can't you create a route to the 10.x.x.x
>  subnet that simply points to the outbound interface?  (rummaging around
>  for network access to router...)
>  
>  Yes, you can use the -interface option with the route command.  Try this:
>  route add -net 10.0.0.0 -interface (whatever).  Worked for me in at least
>  adding the route, I don't have a ready way to test it at the moment.
>  
>  KeS
>  
>  



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