Hi all,

This might, of course, just be something silly, but I've looked hard at it and
I can't even locate the problem, let alone find a solution to it.

The situation: I have two networks, one UTP (172.16.0/24) and one BNC
(172.16.1/24) with a gateway between them (gallieni, whose two NICs are
172.16.0.3 and 172.16.1.1). All machines in the 172.16.0 network (including
gallieni) have courbet (172.16.0.2) as their defaultroute; on courbet I set up
a static route with 'route add -net 172.16.1 172.16.0.3'.

However, when I try to ping 172.16.1.1 from courbet, I get the error:
'ping: sendto: No route to host', and I can't figure out why. All the relevant
things seem to be all right:

- pinging 172.16.0.3 from 172.16.0 works;
- pinging 172.16.1.1 from 172.16.1 works;
- netstat -r | grep 172 gives:
172.16/24          link#3             UC          4        0   1500  ne0
172.16.0.255       link#3             UHLc        3       55   1500  ne0
172.16.1/24        gallieni           UGS         0        1   1500  ne0
(ne0 is the correct network card, with IP 172.16.0.2 and netmask 255.255.255.0)
- route -n get 172.16.1.1 gives:
   route to: 172.16.1.1
destination: 172.16.1.0
       mask: 255.255.255.0
    gateway: 172.16.0.3
 local addr: 172.16.0.2
  interface: ne0
      flags: <UP,GATEWAY,DONE,STATIC>
 recvpipe  sendpipe  ssthresh  rtt,msec    rttvar  hopcount      mtu     expire
       0         0         0         0         0         0      1500         0 

So, I'm stumped. Perhaps the gateway is broken? But when I asked a guru, he said
that the problem was that traffic to 172.16.1 was not routed right on courbet
(an Alpha with NetBSD); besides, the gateway is an i386 running FreeBSD and
I did set gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, which is all it should take...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Jaap Boender
-- 
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bulbe minuscule, à la mandibule en virgule et au capitule ridicule.
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