On 13 Dec 22:11, James Bensley wrote:

Evening all, I posted this on another mailing list but I think there are a couple here that might be able to help. I am struggling to get the syntax right to add an equal-cost multi-path route under BSD and wondered if anyone out there could correct my mistake? I'm running FreeBSD 8.1 (actually its pfSense 2.0 Beta 4!). I have a virtual sand box on the go, I'm trying for something along the lines of:

route add -net 0.0.0.0/32 equalize nexthop via 192.168.0.1 nexthop via 192.168.0.2

With the intention of balancing per-packet across each of these gateways except I get this error instead:

route: writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable add net 0.0.0.0: gateway equalize: Network is unreachable

I'm rather tired, this stupid box has no man pages, so I stabbed again with:

route add -net 0.0.0.0/32 via 192.168.0.1 via 192.168.0.2 equalize route: bad address: via

Is that supposed to be setting the default route? Cos, 0.0.0.0/32 isn't going to match much... I don't know many machines with the IP of 0.0.0.0... You might want to try: route add -net 0.0.0.0/0 equalize nexthop via 192.168.0.1 nexthop via 192.168.0.2 But I'm not entirely sure that's how BSD routing works... I haven't currently got a FreeBSD box to mess with.

Clearly my syntax is way out, but I'm tired and stuck for ideas. Anyone have clue to spare?

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 14/12/2010 14:19, James Bensley wrote:

I did indeed mean 0.0.0.0/0, I blame this entirely on my sleepiness :D

My BSD box is falling over on the "equalize" flag. I don't think its in there :(

It doesn't seem to be according to the OS X "man route" (which is lifted directly from BSD, according to the page). Here's a snip: <snip> ROUTE(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NAME route -- manually manipulate the routing tables SYNOPSIS route [-dnqtv] command [[modifiers] args] The route utility provides six commands: add Add a route. flush Remove all routes. delete Delete a specific route. change Change aspects of a route (such as its gateway). get Lookup and display the route for a destination. monitor Continuously report any changes to the routing information base, routing lookup misses, or suspected network partitionings. ... The other commands have the following syntax: route [-n] command [-net | -host] [-ifscope boundif] destination gateway [netmask] where destination is the destination host or network, gateway is the next-hop intermediary via which packets should be routed. Routes to a particular host may be distin- guished from those to a network by interpreting the Internet address specified as the destination argument. The optional modifiers - -net and -host force the destination to be interpreted as a network or a host, respectively. Otherwise, if the destination has a ``local address part'' of INADDR_ANY (0.0.0.0), or if the destination is the sym- bolic name of a network, then the route is assumed to be to a network; otherwise, it is presumed to be a route to a host. Optionally, the destination could also be speci- fied in the net/bits format. </snip> Maybe that'll help. Simon - -- ====================================================================== Simon Ransome http://nosher.net Photo RSS Feed: http://nosher.net/images/images.rss -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0Hf14ACgkQ8tdcY+OcZZweaQCfeTl7RonwDPw4tPua8YdxIFll TqsAn1lMm5QJNqbIqcH0cUEGXr0uur0Z =bb1z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----