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From: hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD - routing and slip
Date: 15 Jan 1994 09:32:15 +0100
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References: <CJExBA.G1v@mv.mv.com> <2gsi4f$g6h@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <2gv4lc$l0i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <tdoan-120194141224@camfac1-mac02.ucsc.edu>
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tdoan@cats.ucsc.edu (Anthony Doan) writes:

>In article <2gv4lc$l0i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at
>the Gates of Dawn) wrote:

>> route add default default_address

>The above command will only do any good if you compiled the kernel
>with the "GATEWAY" option turned on.

What please? I have no problem setting a default route without the GATEWAY
option. As I see it, you only need the GATEWAY option, if you route packets
between two different nets (e.g. two distinct class c nets).


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