From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 09:27:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA11313 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11300 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14978(6)>; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:27:08 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177517>; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:26:56 -0700 To: mike@networx.ie cc: Bill Fenner , FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: Does FBSD 2.1 honour ICMP redirects? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 96 08:38:11 PDT." Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:26:49 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Aug20.092656pdt.177517@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message you write: >(b) I tried to install the gateway address given me by my ISP as the >default route and got a "Disc quota exceeded" message back from >"route". Does this message indicate a bug/feature in FreeBSD's >handling of the situation? Um... feature. "Disc quota exceeded" means "The gateway for this new route is only reachable by using this new route to get to it". You might imagine how that could cause some uncomfortable recursion. You could try installing a host route for the gateway address pointing to the PPP link, although since once again gateway addresses are only used to choose the link layer address, I don't think this will do anything for your redirect problem. (e.g. route add ga.te.wa.y p.p.p.peer route add default ga.te.wa.y but if that even works it will be effectively the same as route add default p.p.p.peer which is what I think you had ) Bill