Problems with default gateway

[Fernando Ferri Wollner]

My default gateway is a firewall that is not allowed to ping it. My problems occurs, every time i try to ping a IP that is not in the same network, the server sends the packets to another interface inspide of send it to the default gateway.
I did a work around adding the network manually, static route, pointing to the default gatewayt. Is this happing because i can not ping the default gateway?

Thanks,

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

If your default gateway is firewall it's
not says that you could ping because he
could forward the ping (but he would answer if ping is to him)

How you know that the ping go to the other
interface?

Caesar

[Ron Kinner · Accepted solution]

If you are running 11.0 or better then you are seeing the results of dead gateway detection. You need to set

ndd -set /dev/ip ip_ire_gw_probe 0

and also modify /etc/rc.config.d/nddconf:

TRANSPORT_NAME[0]=ip
NDD_NAME[0]=ip_ire_gw_probe
NDD_VALUE[0]=0

Change the number in the bracket to the next higher number if you already have entries in nddconf.

You should also have the latest ARPA and NDD patches or it might not take.

Ron

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

use netstat -rn /will show your routing list/
also try traceroute IP
Review your filtering