On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:50:25PM -0600, Chris Jones wrote:
> This should be really simple; I must be missing something obvious.
> 
> I want to set a static route for a small network to go through another 
> host.  When I try to manually create this route with "route add", 
> though, it tries to run it through ppp0, instead of fxp0.
> 
> More detail:
> 
> The machine is a router and dial-up server.  It has we0 (where the 
> default route goes), fxp0 (where the local net is), and several ppp 
> interfaces.
> 
> # uname -a
> NetBSD ns 1.5.2 NetBSD 1.5.2 (NS) #1: Wed Dec 19 15:22:25 MST 2001 
> chris@ns:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/NS i386
> # route add xxx.yyy.76.136 -netmask 255.255.255.248 xxx.yyy.76.104
> add net xxx.yyy.76.136: gateway xxx.yyy.76.104
> # netstat -nr -f inet | grep xxx.yyy.76.136
> xxx.yyy.76.136/29  xxx.yyy.76.104     UGS         0        0   1500  ppp0
> # route -n get xxx.yyy.76.104
>    route to: xxx.yyy.76.104
> destination: xxx.yyy.76.104
>  local addr: xxx.yyy.76.97
>   interface: fxp0
>       flags: <UP,HOST,DONE,LLINFO,CLONED>
>  recvpipe  sendpipe  ssthresh  rtt,msec    rttvar  hopcount      mtu 
>   expire
>        0         0         0         0         0         0      1500 
>     694
> 
> So, the kernel obviously knows that the correct interface to reach 
> xxx.yyy.76.104 is fxp0.  But when I add a route using that as the 
> next-hop gateway, it chooses ppp0 instead.  What am I missing?

Can you post the whole output of 'netstat -rn' ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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