Static IP on a Bridge

[Devin Teske]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of james at colannino.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:21 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Static IP on a Bridge
> 
> Quoting Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>:
> 
> > What's the error message you see when you fail to ping out?
> 
> ping: cannot resolve google.com: Host name lookup failure
> 
> > What does the routing table (netstat -r) look like before and after DHCP?
> 
> Before DHCP:
> 
> Routing tables
> 
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
> localhost          link#11            UH          0        0    lo0
> 
> Internet6:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags      Netif Expire
> ::                 localhost          UGRS        lo0
> localhost          localhost          UH          lo0
> ::ffff:0.0.0.0     localhost          UGRS        lo0
> fe80::             localhost          UGRS        lo0
> fe80::%re0         link#5             U           re0
> fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe link#5             UHS         lo0
> fe80::%lo0         link#11            U           lo0
> fe80::1%lo0        link#11            UHS         lo0
> fe80::%tap0        link#13            U          tap0
> fe80::2bd:8aff:fe3 link#13            UHS         lo0
> fe80::%tap1        link#14            U          tap1
> fe80::2bd:8dff:fe3 link#14            UHS         lo0
> ff01::%re0         fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe U           re0
> ff01::%lo0         localhost          U           lo0
> ff01::%tap0        fe80::2bd:8aff:fe3 U          tap0
> ff01::%tap1        fe80::2bd:8dff:fe3 U          tap1
> ff02::             localhost          UGRS        lo0
> ff02::%re0         fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe U           re0
> ff02::%lo0         localhost          U           lo0
> ff02::%tap0        fe80::2bd:8aff:fe3 U          tap0
> ff02::%tap1        fe80::2bd:8dff:fe3 U          tap1
> 
> After DHCP:
> 
> Routing tables
> 
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
> default            192.168.1.1        UGS         0        0 bridge
> localhost          link#11            UH          0        0    lo0
> 192.168.1.0        link#12            U           0        1 bridge
> 192.168.1.103      link#12            UHS         0        0    lo0
> 
> Internet6:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags      Netif Expire
> ::                 localhost          UGRS        lo0
> localhost          localhost          UH          lo0
> ::ffff:0.0.0.0     localhost          UGRS        lo0
> fe80::             localhost          UGRS        lo0
> fe80::%re0         link#5             U           re0
> fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe link#5             UHS         lo0
> fe80::%lo0         link#11            U           lo0
> fe80::1%lo0        link#11            UHS         lo0
> fe80::%tap0        link#13            U          tap0
> fe80::2bd:8aff:fe3 link#13            UHS         lo0
> fe80::%tap1        link#14            U          tap1
> fe80::2bd:8dff:fe3 link#14            UHS         lo0
> ff01::%re0         fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe U           re0
> ff01::%lo0         localhost          U           lo0
> ff01::%tap0        fe80::2bd:8aff:fe3 U          tap0
> ff01::%tap1        fe80::2bd:8dff:fe3 U          tap1
> ff02::             localhost          UGRS        lo0
> ff02::%re0         fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe U           re0
> ff02::%lo0         localhost          U           lo0
> ff02::%tap0        fe80::2bd:8aff:fe3 U          tap0
> ff02::%tap1        fe80::2bd:8dff:fe3 U          tap1
> 
> > What does your arp table look like (arp -a) before and after DHCP?
> 
> Before DHCP:
> 
> (nothing was printed to the screen)
> 
> After DHCP:
> 
> ? (192.168.1.1) at 4c:e6:76:50:86:f6 on bridge0 expires in 1190 seconds
[bridge] ?
> (192.168.1.103) at 02:62:11:f0:35:00 on bridge0 permanent [bridge]
> 
> I can see that something is definitely not right.  Not sure how to fix
/etc/rc.conf
> so that it will be setup correctly, though.  Thank you for the help!

Add the following line (exactly as it appears) to /etc/rc.conf:

defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"

-- 
Devin

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