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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/ppp ppp.linkup.sample
In-Reply-To: <199709211244.NAA27012@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from Brian Somers at "Sep 21, 97 01:44:59 pm"
To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
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...
> > >   Suggested by:
> > 
> > Yet another reason ppp has no business doing routing.  This leaves
> > a window of time that no default route exists and if a connection
> > happens to send a keepalive packet during it the conneciton is going
> > to get torn down :-(.
> > 
> > Correct thing to do is a ``if route 0 exists, then route change 0 0,
> > else route add 0 0''.
> 
> I'll be happy to add your patches to the source and documentation that
> implement this wonderful syntax.

I don't use userland ppp, I remove it from all install systems, I won't
be patching it so you'll have a long wait...



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