Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:58:05 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootup/netconfig oddity Message-ID: <44wtbbvpqa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4496DAAE.8@forrie.com> (Forrest Aldrich's message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:11:10 -0400") References: <4496DAAE.8@forrie.com>
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Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> writes: > I have a freshly-built (cvsup'd today) FreeBSD_6.1 system which fails > to set the default router upon boot. > > I have tried two routers, both on the same /24 segment... "network > unreachable". These were set using the "defaultrouter=xxx.xx.xxx.xx" > in /etc/rc.conf. > > However... if I manually use "dhclient em0", it works. > > I wonder if I'm hitting a bug, or ... It sounds like you're trying to set a default router that isn't on a local network. When you *don't* use dhclient on em0, how do you configure it? It needs to have an address and netmask that correspond to the router in order to set a default route through the router.
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