Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:00:07 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> Subject: Re: Routing to internet addresses ending with 255 Message-ID: <482D6937.10906@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20080516125422.Q19201@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <482D54B3.3060306@otenet.gr> <200805161314.22978.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <20080516125422.Q19201@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> I have two home servers, on different locations, on two ADSL lines >>> using >>> dynamic DNS. One is running Debian, the other FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. >>> >>> I usually ssh from one to the other. Today, the debian server had a >>> public (internet) IP ending in 255. The FreeBSD 7.0 system refused to >>> communicate with it. Another 6.3 system had no problem. The 6.3 and 7.0 > > doesn't your 7.0 system has same first 3 bytes of IP, and badly set > netmask to /24 instead of narrower? > > i don't think it's freebsd version dependent, unless developers made a > bug. > > all these systems are behind ADSL routers and use NAT. Their internal addresses are in the 192.168.0.X range. I could easily consider this a problem of the (cheap) ADSL routers, but 6 and 7 use the same model (OTOH, there may be different firmware versions).
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