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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Route cloning (disable - how to?) Date: 22 Jul 1996 18:49:21 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4t0ifh$8i1@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <4t0g99$pni@mandolin.qnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: patrick@qnet.com's message of 22 Jul 1996 18:11:53 GMT [Patrick Linstruth] | I'm trying to configure a system that will never have more than two | route entries; 1) Default Route; 2) Ethernet. | | When FreeBSD learns about a host on the ethernet, it always adds a route | entry for that host. I don't want it to do that. | | How can I turn off route cloning? You can't. Among other things, the route entry also holds the host's Ethernet address, which used to be in a separate ARP table. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no