On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Vivek Ayer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since I'm in control of a public IP, I'm supposed to set the netmask
> for the ext_if on my openbsd router to 255.255.0.0 not 255.255.255.0.
> Would that solve the mysterious ping problem?

Actually a not-mysterious routing problem.

The entity that assigned you the IP address would have also provided
you with an IP, a netmask and a gateway IP, possibly DNS servers as
well. You would have to check with them (commonly one of network
admin, DHCP server, or ISP).

-- 
Jon

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