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Date:      Thu, 01 May 1997 02:08:48 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
Cc:        brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pppd on 2.2 
Message-ID:  <199705010108.CAA17773@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Apr 1997 07:18:40 PDT." <m0wMaDQ-0009DmC@agora.rdrop.com> 

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> > Well that answers a usenet question too.... Make your default
> > 204.245.198.62 and things will work.  Your default should be
> > directly reachable by you - think about it.  "Send all other
> > packets here".
> 
> .62 is the downstream connection, not the upstream connection.

Sorry, I deleted the original mail, but from memory, your
routing table had no route for the default "via" machine,
making it impossible to send packets anywhere without a
direct route.

> By downgrading to 2.1.7.1, things started working just fine.

But maybe for the wrong reasons ?  Did I misread your orignal
message ?

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