Re: Unable to build Gateway route

[Craig Skinner <craig_(_dot_)_skinner_(_at_)_kepax_(_dot_)_co_(_dot_)_uk>]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:12:32AM -0800, martin wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've been running other firewalls on this IP address with the same
> settings in the past, but am having problems setting up the Gateway
> with OpenBSD 3.8.  It comes back with  "no route to host" and when I do
> a nestat -rn, the Gateway is missing even though /etc/mygate exists.
> 
> IP - 209.216.76.1
> Netmask - 255.255.255.252
> GW - 209.216.77.6

The above is wrong.

I can ping and traceroute to .6, so with that netmask, your IP is .5:

--- 209.216.77.6 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 144.407/149.382/155.952/4.866 ms

10  sl-gw2-orl-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.2.215)  117.102 ms  114.397 ms  113.506 ms
11  sl-interjun-2-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.153.202)  131.711 ms  154.472 ms  130.654 ms
12  * * b.ns.chaossolutions.org (209.216.77.6)  132.998 ms

Contact Eric for more help:

$ whois 209.216.77.6

OrgName:    Internet Junction Corporation
OrgID:      INJU
Address:    12807 W. Hillsborough Ave, Unit K
City:       Tampa
StateProv:  FL
PostalCode: 33635
Country:    US

NetRange:   209.216.64.0 - 209.216.95.255
CIDR:       209.216.64.0/19
NetName:    INJU
NetHandle:  NET-209-216-64-0-1
Parent:     NET-209-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: ASLAN.IJ.NET
NameServer: NS2.IJ.NET
Comment:    ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate:    1998-03-27
Updated:    2003-03-05

RTechHandle: EF233-ARIN
RTechName:   Feinstein, Eric
RTechPhone:  +1-813-855-7793
RTechEmail:  efeinstein_(_at_)_ij_(_dot_)_net