Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:46:03 -0500 From: parv@pair.com To: Graham Bentley <gbentley@uk2.net> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WiFi Woes ! Message-ID: <20061126234603.GB4039@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <001501c7117e$0d429f90$1c07a8c0@CPC> References: <001501c7117e$0d429f90$1c07a8c0@CPC>
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in message <001501c7117e$0d429f90$1c07a8c0@CPC>, wrote Graham Bentley thusly... > > > > Have tried 'route add 192.168.7.1' and editting rc.conf by hand > > to no avail. > > can now ping router however cannot ping external addresses even by > ip ... maybe I messed up by playing with 'route add' ? How do I > check that or put it back to install defaults ? Check the routes by netstat(1) with options "-rn" (-r option to lists the routing tables; -n option to list only the IP addresses, not host names). Below is the output on my machine (without localhost) ... # netstat -rn | grep -v '127.0.0.' Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 192.168.2.1 UGS 0 6903 iwi0 192.168.2 link#1 UC 0 0 iwi0 192.168.2.1 00:04:e2:7c:c0:ca UHLW 2 61 iwi0 511 Route can be changed first by deleteing it by running route(1) with command "delete" (specify a route to delete) or "flush" (remove all the routes). Set "defaultrouter" in /etc/rc.conf with the value of IP address of your router to avoid manually running route(1). I have ... # grep defaultrouter /etc/rc.conf ... defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" For more information, see respective man pages, and FreeBSD Handbook, in particular ... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-routing.html - Parv --
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