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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: User PPP
To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:41:40 -0700 (MST)
Cc: alk@Think.COM, questions@freefall.freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <2079.827898465@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Mar 27, 96 03:47:45 am
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> Tony Kimball wrote in message ID
> <199603270104.TAA07069@compound>:
> > Draconian.
> 
> Sorry?

>From the Greek "Draco", an Athenian lawgiver.

It means that the answer "don't run routed" was a more severe fix
for the problem than necessary.

> > If you need to run routed with iijppp, do this in etc/sysconfig:
> > router=routed
> > routerflags=-s
> 
> > Works for me, anyhow.
> 
> Unless you have multiple TCP/IP enabled interfaces on your machine,
> running routed in active mode is a waste of bandwidth, and can cause
> iijppp to unnecessarily dial out unless you add port 513 to the dial
> filter rules.

Shouldn't the dial filter rules contain this by default?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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