Strange (newbie) Gateway Errors

Thomas Dimson tdimson at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 17:58:42 PDT 2005


Hi,

Sorry if this is out of place, but I am having an issue with forwarding 
packets on my freebsd-current box from a windows PC.

Here what I'm trying to do:
I have two network cards, one on a university network and one going to a 
router, which is connected to a cable modem. Both cards use the vr driver. 
University is configured through DHCP, private router is just specified (
192.168.1.110 <http://192.168.1.110>). I am trying to route traffic to the 
internet through the router while keeping all university traffic internal. 

Problem: 
I run a traceroute from my freebsd box to the university network and it 
works fine. I can access the website (129.97.128.40 <http://129.97.128.40>) 
through the internal network. However, using my windows PC - with the 
freebsd server specified as a gateway - it just times out when trying to 
connect to the web site. Any website on the internet works fine, but not the 
intranet. 

Here is my config, I am just setting a static route to the ip of the website 
to test for now:
netstat -r
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1> UGS 0 119789 vr0
localhost localhost UH 0 0 lo0
129.97.128.40/32 <http://129.97.128.40/32> cn-rtrev-res15net. UGS 0 12 vr1
192.168.1 link#1 UC 0 0 vr0
192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1> 00:20:78:ce:cb:b4 UHLW 2 154 vr0 1172
192.168.1.107 <http://192.168.1.107> 00:11:95:5d:0b:7f UHLW 1 210110 vr0 945

Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire
localhost localhost UH lo0
fe80::%vr0 link#1 UC vr0
fe80::20d:88ff:fe7 00:0d:88:7f:42:d0 UHL lo0
fe80::%vr1 link#2 UC vr1
fe80::211:95ff:fee 00:11:95:e2:57:40 UHL lo0
fe80::%lo0 fe80::1%lo0 U lo0
fe80::1%lo0 link#4 UHL lo0
ff01:: localhost U lo0
ff02::%vr0 link#1 UC vr0
ff02::%vr1 link#2 UC vr1
ff02::%lo0 localhost UC lo0

Can anyone provide me with aid, or at least the location of a log file for 
the gateway functions of the machine?


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