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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:08:13 -0500
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: current@FreeBSD.org, fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject: Re: As of 960608, routed now complains bitterly.
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> If it was "pppd" itself that added the default route, then perhaps the
> problem is that pppd doesn't seem to set RTF_STATIC on the route that
> it adds.  Routed assumes that it is responsible for all routes not
> mentioned in /etc/gateways that don't have RTF_STATIC set.
> 
> This means one of several things:
>
> 1 - "pppd" should set RTF_STATIC on the route that it installs.  This
> seems a little odd, since RTF_STATIC means a route that was manually
> added.  (However, I guess the fact that you put "do-the-default-route-thing"
> in your pppd.conf might mean that it's proxy-manually added =)
> 
> 2 - you need to put something like
> "net default gateway <whatever> metric 1 extern" in /etc/gateways.  The
> "extern" keyword tells routed that this route is none of its business,
> and that someone else (in this case, pppd) will manage the route.

Haven't got this.

> 3 - you need to put something like
> "net default gateway <whatever> metric 1 passive" in /etc/gateways, and
> configure pppd to not install a default route.

Nor this.

> Of these options, #1 will make for the most "plug-n-play", I think, but
> I'm not all that sure it's architecturally correct.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, if pppd is installing a default route for you,
> then why do you need to run routed?

I don't need to run routed, but FreeBSD installed that way (routed -q)
and it's never caused me any problems before - so I left it in.  I
believe there was a big discussion about whether routed should be
run by default or not many months ago.  AFAIK, it still is run by
default, so it [the new routed] could cause a lot of grief for the
typical home installation connected via modem.

I can try options 2 and 3 above - maybe later tonight.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org