IP Routing Question

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 2/14/2006 11:43 AM Steve Douville wrote:
> By default, it sets the netif to em0
>   

OK, then what about 'route add -host aaa.bbb.ccc.209 aaa.bbb.ccc.200'?  
And if that doesn't work, can I please see 'netstat -rn'?  You can 
obfuscate the IPs if you wish.

Cheers,

Drew

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew at mykitchentable.net>
> To: "Steve Douville" <steve at douville.net>
> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:40 PM
> Subject: Re: IP Routing Question
>
>
> On 2/14/2006 11:17 AM Steve Douville wrote:
>   
>> Weird stuff...
>> route add -host aaa.bbb.ccc.209 aaa.bbb.ccc.196 -ifp em1
>>
>>     
>
> What happens if you leave off the "-ifp em1"?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Drew
>
>   
>> doesn't work even if i've already set
>> aaa.bbb.ccc.196   link#2  em1
>>
>> The only way things work well is if the gateway is set to link#2. The only
>> way I can set it to link#2 is if the address was accessed, unsuccessfully,
>> creating a record with link#1 as the gateway and then issuing a route 
>> change
>> command to move it to link#2.
>>
>> it'd be much easier if i could just type
>> route add -host aaa.bbb.ccc.xxx link#2 -ifp em1
>> but it doesn't recognize link#2 as a valid address, even though it uses it
>> in the table by default!!
>>
>> Haven't tried the ipfilter yet. Maybe i'll give that a whirl, too.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew at mykitchentable.net>
>> To: "Steve Douville" <fbsd at douville.net>
>> Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: IP Routing Question
>>
>>
>>
>> What happens with a simple 'route add <certain ip address>
>> aaa.bbb.ccc.196?  Or am I misinterpreting what you wish to achieve?
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Drew
>>