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From: nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD Routing?
Keywords: routing, 386bsd
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Date: 16 Sep 92 19:54:28 GMT
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brians@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Brian Smith) writes:

>I have 386bsd running just wonderfully except for one simple problem:
>routing isn't happening.  I have a Western Digital ethernet card and a
>SLIP connection working just fine.  The problem is that packets aren't
>being routed between the two interfaces.

>	ifconfig we0 192.203.133.4
>	ifconfig sl0 192.203.133.3 137.39.73.3
>	route add default 137.39.73.3

Unless I'm missing something "way obvious" here, the problem will go
away magicaly if subnet.  You can't do routing between the same network
(in your case 192.203.133).  Routing does work once you get the config
right, I'm routing 3 slips and an ethernet here.

-m
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Michael Galassi -- nerd@percival.rain.com