On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:55:11PM +0100, William wrote: > The switch is a Cisco 3550, trunking is setup on the port and I've > allowed the VLANS I'm interested in using. > > The end result is being able to communicate with all devices on said > VLANS which is fantastic but my next objective is to have the box talk > to other networks via a default route, I've tried applying the default > route by defaultrouter= in rc.conf, also manually adding it using > route once the box has booted up but it always results in no replys > back from other networks, even netstat -r seems to hang.
The hang is probably just because your DNS server is unreachable. Use "netstat -rn" instead, or just rm /etc/resolv.conf. (It annoys me that traceroute and some versions of ping and telnet default to trying DNS lookups, when if there's a network problem the DNS server is probably not available) Manually adding the route ought to be fine. Can you ping your default gateway? Does 'ifconfig -a' show the correct settings? The default gateway must be on a directly-connected network of course, i.e. within the range of one of the subnets shown by 'ifconfig -a'. When you ping the default gateway, does the ARP cache get updated? (arp -an) HTH, Brian. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"