From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Sep 1 08:38:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA00721 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 08:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00713 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 08:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr14.etinc.com (dialup-usr14.etinc.com [204.141.95.130]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA10493; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:41:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:41:55 -0400 Message-Id: <199609011541.LAA10493@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: New routed Cc: isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > YES. Things work fine without routed if you have a connection with a >> > FIXED IP number. If your connection gives you a separate IP number on >> > every call, the route for your new IP number to use 127.0.0.1 as >> > a gateway is only put in the table IF you are running routed or gated. >> > All other entries, including the default route are updated >> > properly by ijppp IF they exist when it re-establishes the connection. >> >> Erm, I'm sorry but this just doesn't make any sense. Your >> route_loopback shouldn't change one whit, whether you have a dynamic >> IP address or not, and there's nothing at all you've said here which >> brings me any closer to understanding why you need to run routed. >> > >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). > >I was not typing about route_loopback. The following is the >'netstat -rn' from 205.150.43.2 running the new routed. You need to run routed (or gated) if you need to announce routes to other systems or if you need to learn routes dynamically from other systems. If you dont you dont need it. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous PC Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX.