From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 10 14:39:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA07635 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:39:44 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA07621 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:39:39 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA13429; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:39:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:39:33 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501102239.AA13429@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The routes from hell In-Reply-To: <9501102206.AA12951@blaise.ibp.fr> References: <9501101911.AA13067@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9501102206.AA12951@blaise.ibp.fr> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < Route cloning is fine except in one case : you have an IP provider > with non-fixed addresses and a PPP link... The pppd will put a default > route, the route code will learn the routes. You disconnect. > You connect again at a latter time and you don't have the same address. > The route are out and I have either to put a low timeout or nuke the routes > manually... This is supposed to happen automatically when the PPP interface goes down. If this is not happening, I would like to see the output of `ifconfig -a' and `netstat -rn' for both before and after, and I'll try to fix the problem. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant