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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: process's and ppp0
Date: 22 Apr 1997 08:56:29 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <Pine.A32.3.91.970421095619.14617A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net>,
"Keith W." <kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net> writes:
> On 13 Apr 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
>
>> Your router will be the other side of the PPP link. The "default
>> router" is essentially who you should send packets to when you don't
>> have a specific route. If you try to set up a router that's beyond
>> the other side of the ppp link, you'll need to have a static route
>> to that router (via the IP on the other side of the link). There's
>> no mileage to be gained in doing this though.
>
> It would just add another hop so to speak if that was done then?
Maybe - depends on whether the other side of your ppp link can
route directly - if so, you're adding a hop by specifying a default
that's "over there". Having said all this, I don't think having
a default that's not directly connected is such a good idea. If
FreeBSD supports it, I suspect you're lucky. You're really better
off specifying the other side of the ppp link :)
>> The flags on mine are UGSc. The 'S' just means it's a static route.
>>
> Ok, whats the c mean then? :)
RTFM netstat.
With the 'c' flag, new routes are generated on the fly. This means
you'll get "temporary" routes to hosts you've recently sent a packet
to. This is just a routing optimization.
>> The ppp0 entry in sysconfig after install is now gone compliments of
>> Jordan. I've updated the info about connecting to an ISP in the man
>> page. If you're interested, you could get a copy of
>>
>>
>> If this doesn't help, can you post your config files ?
>
> Did and done it for the man page. I reinstalled again, and will try it
> all over again over the next few days. thanks for the info and the help.
> Be interesting to see if I can get this to work finally.
> I'll post my config files if I cant get this to work as a last resort.
> dont want to bug folks here too much, I like to try and figure these
> things out on my own if I can.
It may be worth looking at http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html. It xrefs
all the ppp docs I know about.
> thanks!
> Keith
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