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From: "Eric J. Rossin" <ejr@nlc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5R: unwanted default route at startup
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 20:26:44 -0700
Organization: Next Level Communications / General Instrument
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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> Eric J. Rossin (ejr@nlc.com) wrote:
> : hi all!
> 
> : I recently upgraded from 2.1->2.1.5, and have an odd startup problem. I
> : do not want any default routes on boot, so I set "defaultrouter=NO" in
> : my sysconfig file. I also do not have any default routes defined in the
> : static route section. Yet, on boot, I get a default route to my network
> : I/F (ep0, which is connected to a private, i.e., 10.0.0.0 network, that
> : I do not want as the default). I can work around this by deleting the
> : default route, but this did not happen under 2.1.
> 
> : Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> How strange !
> 
> Try the following:
> 
>     mv /sbin/route /sbin/route.real
>     echo '#! /bin/sh' >/sbin/route
>     echo 'echo EXECUTING ROUTE: $0 "$@"'
>     echo 'echo $0 "$@" >>/tmp/route.calls'
>     echo 'exec /sbin/route.real "$@"'
> 
> --
> Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....

uh, never mind! thanks for the input, but the problem was an accidental
change
that started routed.

-eric