Bug in routing tables ?

[Brian Candler]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:28:37PM -0200, Ricardo A. Reis wrote:
>        I insert this route in my workstation for network test,
> 
> #route add -net 200.144.xx.xx 255.255.254.0 172.22.x.x

Linux user I bet ;-)

For FreeBSD you need:
#route add -net 200.144.xx.xx -netmask 255.255.254.0 172.22.x.x

> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
> default            200.144.xx.xxx     UGS         1    13407    rl0
> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          0       46    lo0
> 136.16&0xac160181  255.255.254.0      UGS         0       34    rl0 

As you can see, 255.255.254.0 was interpreted as the gateway, not the
netmask.