> -------- Original Message -------- > On 4/3/25 08:18, Janne Johansson <icepic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The default route is given by an ip, then the kernel looks up which > > interface contains the network for which the box can reach this ip in a > > single hop. If it can, the route is now shown to be over this interface, > > and that interface joins the egress interface group. If it can't find such > > an interface, the default route is not set and no interface joins the > > egress group. > > In a production network, you cannot change the LAN to accommodate obsd. It is > obsd that must accommodate itself to the existing LAN. > > In other words, if I set the LAN to a different subnetwork, egress goes to > the right interface but I fucked up a whole company. On the other side of the > wire, the ISP has a fixed IP I cannot change.
But you would also not get "the same network" from two ISPs, if they are are anything resembling serious internet providers, so you just never get this situation either. Because we are talking "production" here, right? Not some broken lab setup. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
