route to host on same network

[Michael DeMan]

Yes, the auto-mesh matters were solved long ago.

Michael F. DeMan
Director of Technology
OpenAccess Network Services
Bellingham, WA 92825
michael at staff.openaccess.org
360-647-0785
On Sep 14, 2004, at 2:58 AM, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> Hello there.
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:19:31PM +0200, John Hay wrote:
>> I'm busy trying to port mobilemesh 
>> (www.mitre.org/tech_transfer/mobilemesh)
>> to FreeBSD and run into a problem.
>
> I tried to port MobileMesh once too.
>
> It is a largely futile exercise. The wired segment of your network 
> requires
> full multicast routing in order for MMBDP to work, effectively making
> MobileMesh useless for any real world deployment unless all of your
> border nodes are in the same AS.
>
>> The way mobilemesh works is that you use a subnet for the wireless
>> network and then it use host routes to route packets to hosts that are
>> not directly visible. Say for instance that you have hosts 1, 2 and 3
>> on the 10.0.0.0/24 subnet and machines 1 and 3 can't directly see each
>> other, but both can see host 2, then the mobilemesh routing protocol
>> will try to add a host route to the other machine through host 2. On
>> host 1 it will do something like "route add 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.2" and
>> on host 3 it will do "route add 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2". This seems to work
>> on Linux (where mobilemesh was developed), but I have been unable to
>> get it to work on FreeBSD. I have also tried various ways with and
>> without -interface and -iface, but none works. Is it supposed to be
>> possible in FreeBSD and if so does someone know how?
>
> To add a host route you want 'route add -host <destination> <gateway>'
> as per route(8). You shouldn't need to add an interface route unless
> the destination is directly visible on that network (via layer 2
> e.g. ARP or Proxy ARP or some other layer 2 hack). <gateway> can be
> the IP of an interface on your system.
>
> Regards,
> BMS
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