On 31/03/2015 03:40, Adam Thompson wrote: > Sadly, I know several xDSL providers who offer a default gateway not in > the client's subnet. (LOL: my phone auto-corrected "subnet" to > "fuckety". No kidding.) > Linux and Windows and MacOS can deal with this level of brain-deadness, > *BSD cannot.
Not quite true, for a point to point interface FreeBSD will accept the -interface option for a route (route out of the interface, rather than to an IP) not uncommon as a way to economise on IPs among ISPs. [root@vm ~]# route add 192.160.34.0/24 -interface gif0 add net 192.160.34.0: gateway gif0 [root@vm ~]# route get 192.160.34.0 route to: 192.160.34.0 destination: 192.160.34.0 mask: 255.255.255.0 fib: 0 interface: gif0 flags: <UP,DONE,STATIC> recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msec mtu weight expire 0 0 0 0 1280 1 0 [root@vm ~]# Not suggesting its particularly sensible just thats its doable. Vince > However, the good news is that if your network is so broken that you're > trying to route out an interface with a /32, changing that to a /31 is > unlikely to break anything more than it's already broken. > -Adam > > On March 30, 2015 1:17:55 PM CDT, Walter Parker <walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A /32 net mask is not used for used for regular routing interfaces. > It has a specialized use, usually used for virtual interfaces. On a > Cisco router, it would be used for a loopback interface. It is > sometimes used as the subnet mask for an IP alias address on host > systems (where all routing is done using the primary IP address). > > If the WAN interface exists on a network block with another IP > address, what is the subnet of that interface? If it doesn't what > does it matter what the subnet is, as a subnet mask is really only > relevant on an actual network. > > > Walter > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 8:42 AM, day knight <back2ga...@gmail.com > <mailto:back2ga...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello All: > > I see the configuration script doesn't allow you to pick /32 > address when configuring an interface as my default gateway is > not in the same subnet. I have limited IPs and run pfsense from > vmware. How can i override and assign /32 ip address to wan > interface. > > I have done this in other linux and windows distros but since > pfsense is customised kernel and i don't want to break any > functionality, how would I be able to do this. Can I manually > assign/configure em0 instead of suing the utility without > causing any issues? > > thanks > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > > > > -- > The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by > men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice > Louis D. Brandeis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold