RE: Default route problem

From: Martin and Belinda Richardson (m.b.richardson_at_keypoint.com.au)
Date: 01/28/04

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    To: "Luke Kearney" <lukek@meibin.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:00:07 +1100

    Hi Luke,
                    thanks for the reply. I would have thought that rc.conf was the place to
    look, but maybe not the only place...
    Here is a copy of netstat -rn
    Routing tables

    Internet:
    Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
    default 192.168.55.8 UGSc 1 0 vx0
    127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 2 lo0
    192.168.55 link#1 UC 1 0 vx0
    192.168.55.1 00:a0:24:b3:c9:b6 UHLW 2 3840 lo0

    in the bootup display (not available from DMESG), it says it is adding a
    default route, just as if you were doing it manually. I know it is no
    problem to "route delete default" and this works fine, but all it takes is a
    reboot, and Im back to square one! The person I am building the gateway for
    is not un*x savvy, and he justs wants something that sits quietly in the
    corner. Sooner or later he will probably reboot...

    Thanks again.

    Cheers, Martin

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Luke Kearney [mailto:lukek@meibin.net]
    Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:54 PM
    To: Martin and Belinda Richardson
    Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    Subject: Re: Default route problem

    On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:54:08 +1100
    "Martin and Belinda Richardson" <m.b.richardson@keypoint.com.au> granted us
    these pearls of wisdom:

    > Hi everyone,
    > I am having a problem with a gateway I am building for a friend. I have
    > initially set the box up on my home network and have set this box to use
    my
    > gateway temporarily while I fetch some ports etc. Now that I have removed
    it
    > from my network, and edited /etc/rc.conf to set it up to act as a gateway,
    > it STILL sets the default route to my old gateway. I cant find any config
    > file that says "add default route" or anything. I have not set
    defaultroute
    > in /etc/rc.conf, and it is set to "NO" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf!
    > If I use /stand/sysinstall to configure the interface, I notice that there
    > is a value already there for the ipV4 gateway (my gateway). deleting this
    > here does not work. There must be a file somewhere that I have not seen
    > causing me the trouble. Please help!
    >

    AFAIK the only place you need to make changes is /etc/rc.conf then
    either reboot or sh /etc/netstart and you should be good to go. You
    could manually add that route though whilst the machine is up,
    # route add default 192.168.X.X and that should be OK too. what is the
    output of netstat -rn ?

    HTH

    LukeK 

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