On Thu, 31 May 2001, Hroi Sigurdsson wrote:
> Iasen Kostoff wrote:
>
> > The gateway is directly connected and I think this is obvious and should
> > not even be discused. The IP address of the gateway is not from
> > network that the computer is. But there is a route throu interface to it
> > and the kernel still refuses to use that gateway with error ENETUNREACH.
> > And I wrote a patch which allows kernel to set that route. It's kinda
> > unfinished still but it works. Even now (without the patch) you can set
> > this route but it's not straight forward and I don't think that's the
> > right way to be done.
>
> That is just broken IMHO. You will also need to disable any
> e/ingress-filtering that may be on the gateway.
> The right thing to do would be to assign an address on that net to your
> interface which will allow you to point your default gateway at an
> address on that net.
>
> --
> Hroi Sigurdsson
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I don't think that assigning an address from net of the gateway is the
right way and none of the cisco's routers need that, why should FreeBSD
need it ? And no there is not any e/ingress-filtering for the FreeBSD
computer.
Regards.
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