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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.co.intel.com!chnews!itnews.sc.intel.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: routed is trashing my 'default' route Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:42:18 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4qqijq$f4@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <31C80512.6A80@bnr.ca> <31CB5341.41C6@onthenet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tony Griffiths (tonyg@onthenet.com.au) wrote: : 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. I don't believe this. If it is the case, then I assert that it is wrong. routed has no right to delete static routes. Consider this: I have a network X with three machines, IPs X.1, X.2 & X.3. X.1 does not run routed, but has IP forwarding and another network card connected to "the rest of the world" X.2 has routed -s running, has IP forwarding, and has another network card connected to LAN Y. X.3 has routed -q running and "route add default X.1". If routed on X.3 deletes the default route, just because the only RIPs that turn up are from X.2, it's _WRONG_. Why does it think I added a static route and then ran routed ? Is it assuming that I don't know what I'm doing ? Anyway, I run 'routed -q' and have static routes on my home machine, and routed's never deleted _ANY_ of them on me. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....