Route/arp help?

[Iasen Kostov]

M. Parsons wrote:

>To access my dsl modem's line stats page, I have to create an arp
>entry and a route for it, under linux this was done as: (eth1
>connected directly to dsl modem)
>
>ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
>route add 10.0.0.1 dev eth1
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route add -net 10.0.0.1/32 -iface de0 -cloning

But 'ifconfig de0 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0' (or ifconfig de0 
10.0.0.2/24) should set a 10.0.0.0/24 route via de0 why would you want 
to set it again  ?

>arp -s 10.0.0.1 ffffffffffffffffff    (not really fffff, but the MAC
>address of the dsl modem, NOT the nic).
>
>unfortunately, I cant seem to figure out the commands to get this to
>work under FreeBSD 5.3
>
>Ifconfig is simple enough (replace eth1 with de0 in my case)
>
>Arp seems the same (except it needs colons)
>
>But the route command I have no clue.  It doesnt seem to follow the
>same syntax as linux, and I havent figured out the correct syntax yet.
>
>Any help?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark
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