So I tried pinging to the unreachable subnet from my router with pf disabled. The address is resolved by the DNS server I have listed, but I still get no response. I ping that IP address and it doesn't want to respond (destination unreachable). This is with pf disabled too, so I can't blame pf. What else can I blame?
However I find that I can ping the 184.159.35.xxx subnet. I even played around with the netmask changing it from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.0.0, but that didn't seem to help. So I can ping hosts on my own public IP subnet, I can ping hosts outside of 184.159.xxx.xxx like google etc, but I can't ping hosts within 184.159.xxx.xxx itself aside from 35. We actually have other computers on the 184.159.35.xxx subnet and they can reach all hosts on all subnets, no problem. For that, we're using a standard netgear gigabit router. What else can I change on ifconfig to tweak with this? Thanks, Vivek On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jon Simola <jsim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Vivek Ayer <vivek.a...@gmail.com> 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
