*BSD News Article 81207


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP router
Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:04:22 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <54df1m$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <32652BFF.41C67EA6@airmail.net>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6
X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669
X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F  93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E

Martin Stack <jumper@airmail.net> wrote:

> I have noticed that with my ppp running  and after  <alot of bouncing
> around>  my routing table is full of address all going to one address
> (HISADDR).  Since I am on a ppp dial-up  everything should just go to
> the 
> default route.  Is there a flag I can set to prevent all those routes
> from being added?  Will this hurt my dial-up performance if allowed to
> grow?

These are probably clone routes derived from your default route.  They
are kept to speedup the routing, so you don't want to avoid them. :)
They should normally expire after some time.

-- 
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. ;-)