From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 19:30:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03214 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dog.farm.org (gw-hssi-2.farm.org [209.66.103.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03206 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dog.farm.org!dk) Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id TAA14754; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:38:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:38:36 -0800 (PST) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199801220338.TAA14754@dog.farm.org> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why enable routed by default? Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article <19980122102409.39650@lemis.com> you wrote: > I note that the default setting for FreeBSD installations (as of > 2.2.5) is still to start routed. Considering that the vast majority > of users are on leaf nodes with a single connect to the Net, this > doesn't make sense, and it frequently causes problems with PPP > dialups. Can't we change the default to not starting the daemon? perhaps so that your carefully crafted route discovery messages would set up default route on new FreeBSD hosts for you?? (or maybe you feed them RIP default as well??) other than that, there is no reason... oif you use PPP or DHCP on ethernet, there is no perceivable need for it. -- quote of the day: `