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From: "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: PPP routing question (fwd)
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On Fri, 12 May 1995, Chris Shenton wrote:

> Sez you:
> 
>     but routed would not announce the route.  A (not so) quick reading of the
>     code shows that the only keywords recognized are "passive" and "external"
>     for the type of route - the word "active" is NOT a valid keyword!  Not only 
>     that, but the relevant code does
> 
> 	    if we see "passive" {
> 	      do this stuff
> 	    }
> 	    if we see "active" {
> 	      do this other stuff
> 	    }
> 
>     This means if you DO put in a line of the form
> 
>       net n1 gateway n2 metric m1 active
> 
>     the keyword "active" is simply ignored and neither the passive nor the 
>     external action is taken.
> 
> Don't you mean "external" in the second `if'?

Oops... Yes.  Sorry about that...

Thanks,

Mike