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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@onthenet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: routed is trashing my 'default' route
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:58:25 +1000
Organization: Network Technologies P/L
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To: Andrew Atrens <atrens@bnr.ca>

Andrew Atrens wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Hopefully this simple problem has a simple solution :) ..
> 
> Like many of us I connect to the internet through a
> dialup ppp link. The link works great provided 'routed'
> is *not* running. If routed is running, invariably it
> deletes my default route :o(
> 
> So, my questions are:
> 
> 1. How do I tell routed to leave my default route alone? Is
>    it with a command option, or perhaps something in a
>    conf file?

You can't as far as I am aware

> 
> 2. Why do I need routed? ( Currently I'm running without it. )

Leave routed alone and it will not molest you

> 
> 3. If I *do* need some kind of routing daemon, is gated a
>    better choice?

No, and probably no

> 
Basically I doubt that your ISP is sending RIP packets down the wire at
you and certainly *doesn't* want any RIP packets from you, thus 'routed'
(what an entirely appropriated name to give this piece of software
although they got the spelling wrong! ;-) ) will timeout *ALL* your
routes, including those you added statically or automatically via PPP.

You don't need to run it.  The PPP software can setup a default route to
the 'thing' on the other end of the PPP link and that is all you should
need.

Tony