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From: pall@cs.ait.ac.th (Mano Pallewatta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Strange routing problem
Date: 16 Oct 1995 03:50:05 GMT
Organization: AIT, Thailand
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Message-ID: <45skpd$ps9@cs4.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Keywords: FreeBSD, Routing
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Hi,
	I have the following configuration.


--------------------------------x-----------------------------------
  192.41.170/24			|	
				| 192.41.170.202
			-----------------
			|		|
			|FreeBSD Box	|
			|		|
			-----------------
				|202.8.65.201
				|
				x------------------------------------------
					202.8.65.200/29


Any host on 202.8.65.200/29 can ping any host on 192.41.170/24 except for
192.41.170.15. Neither can 192.41.170.15 ping any host on 202.8.65.200/29
except 202.8.65.201 which is a interface of the FreeBSD box. And the
FreeBSD box can also ping 192.41.170.15. I've tested with FreeBSD 2.0 and
later with 2.0.5 Release but the problem remains the same. The two
networks are connected to the FreeBSD box via two ethernet cards and I've
run tcpdump on both of them.  But the packets do not pass through the
FreeBSD box. This was tested with the versions of the kernel with and
without the firewall code and with the former I explicitly instructed to
pass packts to and from 192.41.170.15 but did not succeed in getting them
through. No ICMP error messages like source quench are leaving the FreeBSD
box either. The packets are simply dropped.  192.41.170.15 runs the
nameserver for the domain but it should not have any effect. The routing
table also looks correct. Can somebody kindly tell me how to trace these
packets in the FreeBSD box or what I might have done wrong. 

Thanks in advance,

Mano

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|  Mano Pallewatta                  |    Internet: pall@cs.ait.ac.th        |
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