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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 15:07:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Murad <murad@magi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Networking Problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505150247.25757D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E0yWjGB-0002Qx-00@mail1.toronto.istar.net>

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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Murad wrote:

> >> pccard_ether="ed0 ep0 fe0 sn0"  # Pccard ethernet interfaces (or NO).
> >> ifconfig_common="inet 172.18.0.202 netmask 255.255.0.0"
> >
> >This is correct?  You're rebooting when you flip rc.conf?
> 
> Yes, I'm rebooting (also tried powering down).
> My guess would be the problem is somewhere here:  I don't think there is a
> real gateway for this network.  I think I should be able to access the
> others directly from mine.  How should this affect my setup?
> 
> Depending on what I try, I also sometimes get /kernal: arpresolve: can't
> allocate llinfo for 172.18.0.2.  What does this mean?  I tried playing with
> -iface and -llinfo options in route but didn't seem to help/I didn't use
> them the right way.

Yeah, the llinfo thing is bad routing or a wrong netmask.  255.255.0.0 is
a really odd netmask -- are you _sure_ it's correct? It's not
255.255.255.0?

> The route man pages say:
> If the destination  is directly reachable via an interface requiring no
> intermediary system to act as a gateway,  the "-interface" modifier should
> be specified; the gateway given is the address of this host on the common
> network, indicating the interface to be used for transmission.
> 
> Is this the correct syntax:  route add -net 172.18.0.0 -interface
> 172.18.0.202  ?

I think that's right. YOu aren't setting a default route tho.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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