[CUWiN-Dev] static gateways

[David Young]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:41:22PM -0500, Tom Wiltzius wrote:
> For the Homer nodes we need to set up a gateway node that has a
> statically set IP address on the wired interface. Dan, Matt and I have
> been trying to get a system like this working all morning. We are
> using Rev. 4074 of the software because that's the only one we have
> that works. Hence we can't make use of the new dhcpselect stuff.
> Instead we have:
> 
> * Disabled dhcpselect in /etc/rc.conf.d/dhcpselect
> * Set our wired-interface IP statically in /etc/ifconfig.wire.tmpl,
> replacing the result of /sbin/ethip with our desired IP.
> * Set our default route by adding "defaultroute=192.168.13.1" to the
> bottom of /etc/rc.conf
> 
> These changes were all made in /permanent, of course.
> 
> Upon boot the node takes the alias we gave it in ifconfig.wire.tmpl,
> and has the default route we set in rc.conf. Neither dhcpd or dhclient
> is running. However, we run into two problems:
> 
> 1) Another node on the testbed network we have will set its route to
> the gateway node, as it should, but the gateway node can't seem to
> route traffic out properly. We can't ping out from the non-gateway
> node, and a traceroute gets to the gateway node then fails.
> 
> 2) Both the gateway node and the other node lose their default routes
> after a while, and they don't seem to get them back.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks,

You need to create /permanent/etc/internet-connected.  Put the name of
one interface (sip0, say) in there.

I can work on this with you after lunch, at about 2:30 or 2:45.

Dave

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