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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Routing Hang on Boot
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 01:40:03 GMT
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obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) wrote:
>J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
>:
>: Convert all names in /etc/sysconfig into numeric IP addresses.
>
>I've got the same hangs. Here is the appliable section from
>/etc/sysconfig:
>
>network_interfaces="ep0 lo0"
>ifconfig_ep0="inet 128.120.56.38 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
^^^^^^^^
That one still isn't numeric. Use 127.0.0.1
>route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}"
^^^^^^^^
And another - use the address of ep0, or delete this route altogether
if you don't use multicast.
>route_loopback="${hostname} localhost"
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
Any two more!
>
># Set to the host you'd like set as your default router, or NO for none.
>defaultrouter="128.120.56.254"
>
># These are the flags you'd like to start the routing daemon with
>routedflags="-q"
You probably don't want routed at all - routedflags="NO"