Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 06:27:46 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New routed Message-ID: <387.841584466@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Sep 1996 05:07:46 EDT." <m0ux8VO-00082NC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com>
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> Please don't lose patience with a poor grandfather who spends the
> wee hours of the morning trying to learn something about Unix.
> I have never seen a professionally set up system (which would explain
> a lot) and I learn by trial and error (mostly error).
OK, perhaps we can cut to the chase here then.
1. There is a loopback route already added in /etc/sysconfig by
the two lines:
static_routes="... loopback"
route_loopback="${hostname} localhost"
The network_interfaces="lo0 ..." and ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
lines earlier up take care of the actual loop back interface itself.
2. ppp manages the default route automatically, given an " add 0 0" line
somewhere in your ppp options file (the default if you had your
system's ppp initially configured by sysinstall).
3. Given the presence of the 2 above routes, already present after system
startup and ppp connection time, you need to ask yourself the following
question: "Why do I need to run routed or gated? What additional
feature, not listed above, are they providing me?"
Jordan
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