Now for a 3rd bird to kill in one reply I need to remind Yannack that apparently the *last* dhclient to run sets the default route. Next time dhclient renews the lease on an0 your default route will go the wrong way again until the ISP-issued lease renews on fxp0.
I think it would be easiest to statically set the wireless IP address. After all it is *your* network, right? So you ought to be able to lay down your own law. With a static address you'll always know how to reach your FreeBSD box from the wireless side.
Yes and no: given I use this laptop at two locations, the wireless IP changes. At home, I can set it as it is indeed my own network, but not at work.... :(
Otherwise you ought to dig into dhclient's docs in order to prevent an0 from setting a default route. Just because it seems to be working now doesn't mean its time to stop, else you will end up with a typical PC-grade network.
Actually you are right, I will have to do that as this morning at work, the setup didn't work :( I have wifi and ethernet both at work and at home, and though my tests seemed to work at home with my personal DHCP they stopped at work for some reason. I will therefore try and find some dhclient option preventing the setting of a default route for an0. However when my ethernet is down (which does happen), I have to have a default route available through an0... Gee, this is tough... :( Why is it so easy with Windows ?
Am guessing based on the contents of man pages for dhcp-options and dhclient.conf but you need to put something like the following on the tail of /etc/dhclient.conf. Am thinking here that these are the only things you want from the wireless router. That if you don't ask for a router then you won't be given one. Undefined interfaces in /etc/dhclient.conf will continue to use the default values.
interface "an0" { require ip-address, subnet-mask, broadcast-address; }
I will do some testing...
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