Subject: Re: questions with route
To: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
From: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/1998 09:25:58
At 02:30 PM 8/26/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Excerpts from netbsd: 26-Aug-98 Re: questions with route Paul
>Goyette@whooppee.co (1430*)
>
>> You need to
>> get a _separate_ address space for the second interface. 
>
>Well, there is a way which works for me:
>the primary interface is eg:
>	ifconfig le0 a.b.c.d netmask 0xffffff00
>	route add -net default a.b.c.1
>The secondary - only for connections to a.b.c.f:
>	ifconfig ep0 a.b.c.e netmask 0xffffffff
>	route add -net a.b.c.f -netmask 0xffffffff -iface a.b.c.e -cloning

Hrm... and this is on a netbsd box?

>It might work if you add more of these degenerated
>net routes.
>On other OSes one can use host routes at this point.
>Did you see messages from the ARP code on the console
>when you tried?

yes I did, but I just dont remember what the messages were...
It sounds like you have been doing someone similar to what I am
looking to do...

>best regards
>Matthias

Thanks for the info,
Nick