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From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home)
Subject: Re: Route cloning (disable - how to?)
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 20:35:50 GMT
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I would if I could!  I have a demand-dial setup and I have not figured
out how to keep gated from tearing down the connection after the
phone hangs up. That routing is necessary to allow the next
connection to be made.  Any hints?

J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) wrote:

: > I find his statement about routed dumping core more interesting.

: I find routed more interesting. ;-)

: But even Solaris has been infected by the `routed' disease.  I was
: wondering yesterday why our Internet router was active all the time,
: with no traffic being logged by the tcpdump.  By the help of our ISP,
: i found that the new Solaris machine has been firing up a ``routed
: -s'' after noticing that it has got two ethernet interfaces...  What
: a silly idea!

: Seriously, dump routed, and use GateD if you need.  Maybe the updated
: routed in -current is worth the while, i haven't tried it.  It's a
: total rework by the author (Michael VanLoon, if i'm not mistaken).

: -- 
: cheers, J"org

: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)