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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:02:44 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject:   Re: syscons and mono VGA screens?
Message-ID:  <199611110232.NAA04685@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199611091055.LAA10906@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 9, 96 11:55:26 am"

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J Wunsch stands accused of saying:
> 
> > (There's also an annoying delay when adding the default route, despite my
> > adding '-n' to the 'route add' line in netstart.  The machine has two
> > ethernets, and resolves via a local nameserver, so I can only guess that
> > -n is not having the desired effect.)
> 
> -n does only have an effect on reverse lookups to translate addresses
> into names when printing.  You gotta explicit use numerical addresses
> in your case -- how else should the names translate into addresses
> otherwise?

route -n add -interface 129.127.96.120

which takes no time at all once the system is up, causes a
resolver-timeout-like delay when specified via 

defaultrouter="-interface 129.127.96.120"

in /etc/sysconfig.

> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE

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