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To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/ppp ppp.linkup.sample 
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:51:18 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> > 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.

The right way to do this is probably for "add <anything>" to look and 
remove any routes for <anything> before inserting the new one.

I would hope this was as easy as it sounds. 8)

mike