Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:32:41 +0100 From: Martin LEUSCH <sce.tech@imrcom.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How configure a point to point connection? Message-ID: <26bf0b09-e9e2-4537-5817-0d8ad69badf2@imrcom.fr> In-Reply-To: <20180319113653.b24768dae3c1f5535d73acaa@sohara.org> References: <f84b12f7-6ca8-9ad5-7ace-c5c153ec4b13@imrcom.fr> <20180319113653.b24768dae3c1f5535d73acaa@sohara.org>
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Le 19/03/2018 à 12:36, Steve O'Hara-Smith a écrit : > On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:53:48 +0100 > Martin LEUSCH <sce.tech@imrcom.fr> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to add a public IP of my hosting provider to a FreeBSD VM. To do >> this I have to reach a remote gateway with a point to point connection >> but I didn't how how to do that on FreeBSD. Under Debian GNU/Linux, I >> just have to add the gateway to the "pointopoint" parameters in >> /etc/network/interfaces: >> >> iface eth0 inet static >> address my.public.ip >> netmask 255.255.255.255 >> pointopoint my.provider.gw >> gateway my.provider.gw >> >> I tried the following commands: >> >> ifconfig vtnet0 inet my.public.ip my.provider.gw netmask 255.255.255.255 >> route add default my.provider.gw >> >> When I tried to add the default route, I get "Network is unreachable". > Try losing the netmask 255.255.255.255 which puts only a single > address on the segment making the default route unreachable. > Actually I cannot play with the netmask as my public IP and the remote gateway are not on the same IP range but it was effectively a routing issue. I simply have to add a static route to the remote gateway via the network interface of my VM: route add -host my.provider.gw -interface vtnet0
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