From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 3 07:21:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA19898 for current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 07:21:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA19893 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 07:21:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA30981; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:21:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:21:02 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9612031521.AA30981@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Peter Wemm Cc: Bill Fenner , Paul Traina , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall config.c install.c In-Reply-To: <199612030504.NAA01808@spinner.DIALix.COM> References: <96Dec2.205340pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> <199612030504.NAA01808@spinner.DIALix.COM> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I added RTF_STATIC to the default route that pppd installed, I was under > the impression that routed was supposed to leave those alone? Or does > it only leave the RTF_STATIC routes alone that were there at startup > and "fight" any new routing changes that it hears about from the routing > socket? Neither. It will keep RTF_STATIC routes, but only so long as they are not inconsistent with what it learns from the routing protocol. (Or so Vern once claimed to me.) Apparently, if it learns nothing from the routing protocol, it considers that to be an inconsistency. You will notice, for example, that if you have a static default and routed learns a default to that same remote gateway, then it will leave it alone in circumstances where it would otherwise have deleted it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick