From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 1 06:29:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA26499 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 06:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA26494 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 06:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA00389; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 06:27:46 -0700 (PDT) To: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New routed In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Sep 1996 05:07:46 EDT." Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 06:27:46 -0700 Message-ID: <387.841584466@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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