From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 19:07:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDB916A469 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:07:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC99613C465 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l5EJ7Dvq000807 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:07:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <467191DB.2010709@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:07:07 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: (OT?) Anyone wanna address my ISP's issues? [CIDR/BGP question] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:07:16 -0000 [OT Warning] Not related to FBSD, other than the use of ping(8), which is working as expected, apart from the fact that the network *isn't*. If anyone cares to give an opinion, TIA! I'm trying to get a land-based (DSL) solution to my rather remote office. Found a provider, they (supposedly) made arrangements with the local telco, sent me the DSL modem, etc. I set it up as instructed, but we're not getting TCP/IP here on it. Hours and hours of frustrating hold music on the telephone, WWW-chat sessions that get nowhere, etc. The modem "sync" is fine, but, as one tech put it, "sync but no surf". It's been this way for > 2 weeks. The DSL modem's outside (static) IP is n.n.n.70, the gw is n.n.n.69, and the mask is 255.255.255.252. From inside, I can ping .70, but not .69 (and, needless to say, nothing else, either). From the outside, it's the other way 'round. Traceroute (from outside) shows different endpoints for the two addresses (that is, the last hop before .69 is one router, and, when looking for .70, it's another router (but not the one that leads to .69)). If I did my CIDR homework correctly, the net is n.n.n.68/30. Using "BGPlay" (http://bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay/), I get the message: "The selected data sources have no information on prefix n.n.n.68/30. Please check that this prefix is globally announced." My question: shouldn't it be 'announced', if the ISP intends to route me TCP/IP traffic? I apologize for my ignorance, but BGP isn't something I figured to need to know at this point in my life (although, it doesn't hurt to learn, usually).... Thanks again, Kevin Kinsey -- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -- George Bernard Shaw