From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 11:19:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA22905 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts10-204.indigo.ie [194.125.133.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22897 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA05920; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:44:32 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:36:49 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Re: Does FBSD 2.1 honour ICMP redirects? To: Bill Fenner Cc: Bill Fenner , FreeBSD Support Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:26:49 PDT Bill Fenner wrote: > 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 That's exactly what I did, that caused the quota-exceeded message. > 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 Interestingly, the quota-exceeded message didn't prevent "route" from adding the routes, and thereafter, the Redirects stopped... Anyway, I'm just gonna forget about that gateway IP address. I don't know why my ISP instructed me to use it, seeing as they know I'm coming in over a point-to-point link. Thanks sincerely for your help, Mike ---