defaultroute not loading

[Michael Zimmer]

   When I got in this morning I reinstalled base/doc/man/ports from the
   6.0 CD and ... suddenly it seems to be working.

   I don't really understand why, but I'm in no position to complain. : )

   Thanks for your help, everyone.
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     From:  Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
     To:  Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
     CC:  Michael Zimmer <drakyri at hotmail.com>,
     freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
     Subject:  Re: defaultroute not loading
     Date:  Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:09:37 +0000
     >
     >On 13 Jan 2006, at 12:49, Ceri Davies wrote:
     >
     >>
     >>On 12 Jan 2006, at 23:37, Michael Zimmer wrote:
     >>
     >>>
     >>>   I just updated a i386 gateway to 6.0-STABLE - using my
     >>>backed-up
     >>>   versions [from 5.1] of:
     >>>
     >>>   rc.conf
     >>>   rc.firewall
     >>>   rc.resume
     >>>   rc.sendmail
     >>>   rc.shutdown
     >>>   rc.subr
     >>>   rc.suspend
     >>>   resolv.conf
     >>>   sysctl.conf
     >>>   ipnat.rules
     >>>   ipf.rules
     >>>
     >>>   ...and the default route won't load on boot, although it is
     >>>specified
     >>>   in rc.conf (replace all non-comment #'s and 1.2.3.4 with
     >>>appropriate
     >>>   numbers....)
     >>>
     >>>   hostname="#####.com"
     >>>   defaultrouter=1.2.3.4                  # previously
     "1.2.3.4";
     >>>removed
     >>>
     >>Could you post the output of "sh -x /etc/rc.d/routing start"?
     >>Please try to resist editing it too.
     >>
     >>Is this working for anyone on 6.0-STABLE?  I don't see anywhere
     >>in /etc where the default route is actually installed.
     >
     >Ignore me, there's nothing wrong.  At least not with FreeBSD...
     :-/
     >
     >Ceri
     >

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