Subject: Re: What's wrong with my DHCP/NAT config?
To: Justin Dittmann <jrdittmann@wisc.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/03/2005 21:58:48
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:55:16PM -0500, Justin Dittmann wrote:
> >In what state are the clients when this happens ? Do they still have
> >an IP ? A default route ? DNS servers ?
> >
> > 
> >
> The clients always keep their IP address, as well as the correct DNS 
> servers - I watched the output of /usr/sbin/dhcp -d -f, and when the 
> clients drop, the server doesn't send/recieve anything, IP-wise.
> 
> Running netstat -nr on one of my linux boxes (how to you check in 
> WinXP??), I get the following:
> 
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt 
> Iface
> 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0       255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0       127.0.0.1     255.0.0.0       UG        0 0          0 lo
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1   0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

Looks good. If you run tcpdump on the netbsd gateway, when one of these
boxes tries to access something outside the LAN, do you see packets coming
in ? What do you have on the outgoing interface ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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