How configure a point to point connection?

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:53:48 +0100
Martin LEUSCH <sce.tech at imrcom.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to add a public IP of my hosting provider to a FreeBSD VM. To do 
> this I have to reach a remote gateway with a point to point connection 
> but I didn't how how to do that on FreeBSD. Under Debian GNU/Linux, I 
> just have to add the gateway to the "pointopoint" parameters in 
> /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
>    address my.public.ip
>    netmask 255.255.255.255
>    pointopoint my.provider.gw
>    gateway my.provider.gw
> 
> I tried the following commands:
> 
> ifconfig vtnet0 inet my.public.ip my.provider.gw netmask 255.255.255.255
> route add default my.provider.gw
> 
> When I tried to add the default route, I get "Network is unreachable".

	Try losing the netmask 255.255.255.255 which puts only a single
address on the segment making the default route unreachable.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>