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On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, spork wrote:

> > I have annex4000 term servers.  I can set a dedicated IP to a user, but if
> > they connect on a term server in a different class C they get the IP but
> > there is no route to it.
> 
> The best answer I get get from Xylogics on this was to turn on RIP so that
> when the user dialed in, the Annex would let everything on the network see
> the new route.  The problem is that it only updates every 30 seconds, so
> an impatient user would hang up thinking the link was dead.  We opted to
> only give out static IPs on a small hunt that resides on one annex...

I have active rip - perhaps I was impatient.  I'll run tests tonight.