Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:51:18 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, brian@freebsd.org (Brian Somers), cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/ppp ppp.linkup.sample Message-ID: <199709251521.AAA04380@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Sep 1997 13:44:59 %2B0100." <199709211244.NAA27012@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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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
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