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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!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!symiserver2.symantec.com!usenet From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: routed is trashing my 'default' route Date: 27 Jun 1996 05:15:35 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4qt5dn$dkd@symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <31C80512.6A80@bnr.ca> <31CB5341.41C6@onthenet.com.au> <4qqijq$f4@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.6.34.3 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4qqijq$f4@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: >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: > routed won't delete static routes, however it might be worth mentioning that the kernel before 2.X didn't have a mechanism for adding them. (at least, there was no static option in the route command) In any case, RIP depends on broadcast traffic, and I don't believe that pppd will pass broadcast traffic out a serial line. (broadcast packets have little meaning on a point-to-point link anyway) I have found that the easiest way of doing it is to put all the appropriate addresses in /etc/gateways and not run routed until the link comes up. Once that happens I run routed and it puts in all the routes.