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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: netwirk interface setup
To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:06:45 -0700 (MST)
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> My machine is 130.132.57.207.  Currently if I send a packet to 
> 130.132.57.207, it goes over sl0 over the modem, bounces at the router, 
> and comes back over the modem to me.  How should I set up my routing 
> tables, etc, so that packets to 130.132.57.207 go over a loopback 
> interface?  Or is this just not standard practice?

Add a non-default route for the specific addresses/nets that you wish
to have treated as local.  Only packs to the default route (which I
assume is on the other side of the SLIP link) will be sent over the
link.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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