[CUWiN-Dev] static gateways

Matt Isaacs matthew.isaacs at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 14:12:42 CDT 2006


Is that on both nodes, or just the node that is the gateway?

On 8/28/06, David Young <dyoung at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> 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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