From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 15:25:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA15659 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:25:07 -0800 Received: from jack.colorado.edu (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA15650 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:25:01 -0800 Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.colorado.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12/CNS-3.6) with ESMTP id QAA12631 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 16:22:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199511282322.QAA12631@jack.colorado.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: subnetting In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Nov 1995 21:15:48 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 16:22:30 -0700 From: "Mark G.M. O'Lear" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Dear, > > Net 192.168.32.0 is free available, look at the appropriate RFC's. RFC 1597 also states that routers are not supposed to forward packets coming from (or going to) these addresses. My guess is that routed just blindly forwards all addresses while gated is smart enough to know that it is not supposed to forward these packets (this is only a guess, I have never used gated). Hope this helps, Mark Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU > Daniel. > > On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Brian Litzinger wrote: > > > > > > > Dear Friends, > > > > > > I switched from useing routed to gated on a FreeBSD 2.0.5. We have a PPP > > > link over a leased line to our provider. But we only have one real > > > IP-number, namely 194.10.201.200. > > > > > > We have a small local Ip-network on ethernet (ed0), using the fake net > > > 192.168.31 and we have three dialin modems for PPP (using ppp for > > > cleint-ppp) setting up links between: > > > > > > 192.168.32.254 <-> 192.168.32.1 > > > 192.168.32.254 <-> 192.168.32.2 > > > 192.168.32.254 <-> 192.168.32.2 > > > > > [stuff deleted] > > > > > When I used routed, defining some static routes, I could ping from within > > > the network to outside. This isn't possible anymore. Can someone help us. > > > We are the system of the Association for Progressive Communication in > > > Belgium. > > > Daniel Verhoeven. > > > > I'm not an expert, but > > > > 1. I'm surprised this ever worked. > > > > 2. Isn't the owner of net 192.168.32.0 going to be upset? > > > > -- > > Brian Litzinger > > http[s]://www.mpress.com > > speakfree.mpress.com, videomsg.mpress.com > >