Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 13:44:59 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: brian@FreeBSD.ORG (Brian Somers), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/ppp ppp.linkup.sample Message-ID: <199709211244.NAA27012@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 21:26:14 PDT." <199709210426.VAA12547@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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> > brian 1997/09/20 19:10:41 PDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > etc/ppp ppp.linkup.sample
> > Log:
> > Add "delete 0" before "add 0 0..."
> > Suggested by:
>
> Yet another reason ppp has no business doing routing. This leaves
> a window of time that no default route exists and if a connection
> happens to send a keepalive packet during it the conneciton is going
> to get torn down :-(.
>
> Correct thing to do is a ``if route 0 exists, then route change 0 0,
> else route add 0 0''.
I'll be happy to add your patches to the source and documentation that
implement this wonderful syntax.
> --
> Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
> Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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