Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:08:39 +0100 From: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> To: john holland <johnbsd@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routing table/natd problem upon ISP disconnect Message-ID: <37B69FB7.B6E5DA10@baker.ie> References: <19990815043728.11909.rocketmail@web1105.mail.yahoo.com>
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> 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 netstat -r will try and resolve each address to a name which can cause it to "hang" if using DNS to do the lookup if you use netstat -rn instead it will just report the addresses as opposed to their names > 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. which host did you ping from and did it return any error messages ? Regards, - Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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