Quick Routing Question

Jason Morgan jwm-freebsd at sentinelchicken.net
Tue Nov 1 07:48:16 PST 2005


On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:03:26AM -0800, Brian E. Conklin wrote:
> Do you have gateway_enable="YES" in your rc.conf?

Yes, I do. The FreeBSD works fine for routing to the outside, it's 
between the subnets where I run into issues.


> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Morgan
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:42 PM
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> Subject: Quick Routing Question
> 
> 
> I am setting up a wireless subnet and, while the gateway (FreeBSD
> system) is communicating fine with the wireless router, my other subnet
> is not able to connect to the wireless router. Here is a diagram of my
> network, I think it's fairly typical.
> 
> 
>                          Wired Subnet (10.0.0.x)
>                             /
>                            /
> Internet <-- FreeBSD Machine 
>                            \
>                             \
>                          Wireless Subnet (192.168.1.x)
> 
> 
> The 'wired' interface on the FreeBSD machine has an IP of 10.0.0.1, with 
> the 'wireless' IP being 192.168.1.1.  Now, the FreeBSD machine and the 
> wireless router (192.168.1.2) communicate fine as does the wired subnet; 
> however, I am not able to connect from a 10.0.0.x client to the wireless 
> router. After running traceroute, etc, it seems that the FreeBSD machine 
> is simply not routing the data from one subnet to the other. I've 
> verified that it's not the firewall blocking packets. How do I get these 
> subnets to communicate?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
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