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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
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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.