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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!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!arg-home5.net-tel.co.uk!nobody From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please help a freeBSD newbie Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:58:38 +0000 Message-ID: <3309C39E.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk> References: <3304827D.549F@crl.com> <330886eb.2749133@Server> <87g1ywm4b8.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35704 stephen farrell wrote: > basically, you'll probably want to set up your freebsd box to > "support" the network. you'll want to run routed (routing daemon), Why are people so keen on running routed? In this case (a totally disconnected network) it can't do any good at all. And for the next level of complexity (dial-up link to an ISP), simple default routes will suffice (and are all that the Macs can easily be configured to use anyhow). And we regularly see posts here from people suffering from routed deleting their external routes on a dial-up because the ISP isn't playing RIP - when they usually had no reason to run routed in the first place.