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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!docws001!ottnews!tomqnx.tomqnx.com!tom From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Subject: Re: Route cloning (disable - how to?) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 159.249.8.221 Message-ID: <DvyCKx.DqH@ottnews.shl.com> Sender: usenet@ottnews.shl.com (News Administrator) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. (Ottawa) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <4t0g99$pni@mandolin.qnet.com> <Dv4oHn.6qu@ottnews.shl.com> <4u06pi$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 02:36:33 GMT Lines: 39 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) wrote: : > : Then the question is still the same: If pppd inserts a default for you : > : when the link comes up, *why* do you need to run gated or routed at all : > : on your machine? : > My ISP's network is 205.206.213.0 : > My network is 205.150.43.0 : > : > Without routing software, how is the presence of my network : > and the path to it announced? : It is not to be announced at all. If your ISP is too stupid to setup : a route for you (and your net), he should perhaps quit his job. No comment - you seem to have said it all. : Relying on RIP route announcement for the remote end is the worst he : could do. His customers could announce _any_ network on the remote : end, and he will blindly believe it? I can't imagine that somebody is : that stupid! (Btw., _he_ can and should use GateD -- without RIP -- : doing the job.) : On your side, no routed or GateD is necessary. The other machines in : your network know their gateway anyway, and pppd is inserting the : static route once it is up. I can see that - what I don't understand (and I would like to) is how _he_ could do that since I am signing on to one of his modems at random - I don't have a dedicated line. Can you recommend any reading material? : -- : 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. ;-)