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From: brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Please help a freeBSD newbie
Date: 19 Feb 1997 10:03:58 GMT
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stephen farrell (sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> writes:
: >
: > 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
: well, forgive my ignorance, but in setting up a totally isolated
: network (as i have had to do several times, specifcially between macs
: and unix boxes), routed produced the desired effect... it worked
: without hassle. if there is a better way, i'd be interested to hear
: it.
[.....]
It shouldn't matter if routed (-q) is running or not. With a
private net (not connected to anything else), you don't need
to do anything - your IP & Netmask will tell the machine that
all the other machines are local. If you run routed -q, nothing
will continue to happen as nobody's broadcasting RIP.
If you connect via a dial-up to the 'net, all you need to do is
set a "default" on the dialup machine to the other side of the
dialup, and a "default" on all other machines that points to the
dialup machine. I suspect it's very rare that an ISP will broadcast
RIPs down a dialup.... there's no point - they'd just say "default
this way". Therefore, having routed running doesn't matter.....
except for some reason, people report that routed keeps deleting their
default route. This has *never* happened to me !! The only reason
I can imagine is that routed is adding the route in the first place...
it's never been supposed to (and never has for me) delete static
routes (netstat -r has the 'S' flag).
Ppp is responsible for the line, and controls all routing table entries
for that line. If ppp is to be used, there should be *absolutely
nothing* mentioned about tun* in /etc/sysconfig. The *only* lines
that you need are
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
ifaddr 10.10.10.10/0 10.10.10.11/0 255.255.255.0
delete ALL
add 0 0 HISADDR
/etc/ppp/ppp.linkup:
delete ALL
add 0 0 HISADDR
Hope this helps.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@utell.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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