Brian Henning wrote:
My local network (192.168.1.0) consists of two machine BSD1 (192.168.1.40) and BSD2 (192.168.1.42). There is a third machine (192.168.1.254, ip address from isp) that acts as a gateway router. When my internet connection goes down for whatever reason I loose connections in my local network. For example, i can't ping 192.168.1.40 from 192.168.1.42. is there any explaination for this?
Can you give more details about the topology? Does the gateway have 2 NICs? I assume there's a hub on the inside? Please post the output from ifconfig on the gateway machine.
is it because my default route is set to be external?
No, that doesn't normally cause problems to a local network. When our Internet goes down it doesn't affect internal traffic in the slightest. This is a rather strange problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
