Quick Routing Question
Steve Bertrand
iaccounts at ibctech.ca
Tue Nov 1 06:03:24 PST 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Keil
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:58 AM
> To: Jason Morgan
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: Quick Routing Question
>
> Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd at sentinelchicken.net> wrote:
>
> > I am setting up a wireless subnet and, while the gateway (FreeBSD
> > system) is communicating fine with the wireless router, my other
> > subnet is not able to connect to the wireless router. Here is a
> > diagram of my network, I think it's fairly typical.
> >
> >
> > Wired Subnet (10.0.0.x)
> > /
> > /
> > Internet <-- FreeBSD Machine
> > \
> > \
> > Wireless Subnet (192.168.1.x)
> >
> >
> > The 'wired' interface on the FreeBSD machine has an IP of 10.0.0.1,
> > with the 'wireless' IP being 192.168.1.1. Now, the FreeBSD machine
> > and the wireless router (192.168.1.2) communicate fine as does the
> > wired subnet; however, I am not able to connect from a
> 10.0.0.x client
> > to the wireless router. After running traceroute, etc, it
> seems that
> > the FreeBSD machine is simply not routing the data from one
> subnet to
> > the other. I've verified that it's not the firewall
> blocking packets.
> > How do I get these subnets to communicate?
>
> Did you put gateway_enable=YES in rc.conf?
> Did you read
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/net
> work-routing.html>?
Also, what does:
# netstat -rn
...output?
Steve
>
> Fabian
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>
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