> I'm relatively new to *BSD (but have previously used Linux on i386 and alpha)
> and have a question about routing:
> 
>  -----------+------------ LAN: a.a.a.56/29
>             |
>             | a.a.a.57
>          NetBSD/alpha box
>             | a.a.a.61
>             |
>             .
>             . ethernet bridge
>             .
>             | b.b.b.17
>         Linux router (my default gateway)
> 
> I know that's not very well designed, the NetBSD box should have
> a b.b.b.x address on it's outer interface, but at the moment I have
> to live with this.
> 
> Now I want to set the default gateway on the NetBSD box.
> 
> route add -iface -host b.b.b.17 a.a.a.61
> route add default b.b.b.17
> Here I get an error saying that the network is unreachable. He is right
> because the interface has no ip address in the b.b.b.x net.
> I've tried using -ifa and -ifp to select the interface, but with no luck.
> I studied the /sys/net/route.c and /sys/net/rtsock.c files and found out
> that -ifa and -ifp are not relevent in the decision if the network is
> reachable or not because they are not passed to the ifa_ifwithroute
> function.

You could use "route add -net b.b.b -iface -link <interface name>".
Fix your addressing ASAP.


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