Help routing

[Bill Moran]

[Please keep freebsd-questions in the CC]

warren maxwell wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
> 
>>warren maxwell wrote:
>>
>>>Im setting up a serial line connection and i am unable to ping because
> 
> it says no host. How do i set up my base local address to be 192.168.2.1?
> The commands i am running are as follows,
> 
>>>slattach -h -l -n -s 19200 /dev/cuaa0
>>>ifconfig sl0 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.3 up
>>>
>>>Do i need to add a route command like this?
>>>route add -net 192.168.2 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0
>>>
>>>Thanks for all the help in advance guys, much appreciated.
>>>Bryan
>>
>>Check 'netstat -rn' and see if an appropriate route is in
>>there, if not you'll probably have to add it manually each
>>time you connect.  It seems that some types of interfaces
>>create a route automatically (ethernet, for example) while
>>others don't.
> 
> Well i added the route command like this,
> route add -net 192.168.2 localhost 255.255.255.0, this allowed me to ping
> the 192.168.2.2 side of things but the 192.168.2.3 gave me this error, ping:
> sendto: Network dropped connection on reset
> Any ideas? Thanks once again in advance, I am a newbie at this linux stuff,
> but the one thing I love about is all the help from the community. Thanks :)
> Bryan

Please send the complete output of 'ifconfig' and 'netstat -rn'.  I'm wondering
if there is a config problem elsewhere that is causing problems with the
routing.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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