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Date:      Sun, 2 May 1999 12:45:00 +0200
From:      Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: default route not set up??
Message-ID:  <19990502124500.K6095@paert.tse-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <xzpiuadvsgw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Sat, May 01, 1999 at 03:18:23PM %2B0200
References:  <372A1AE6.4E2738D4@odin-corporation.com> <xzpn1zpvyup.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <372AF60B.E11A6989@newsguy.com> <xzpiuadvsgw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Hi,

On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 03:18:23PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > >     # Configure routing
interesting code deleted ... [..]
> > Looking there, it *does* seem that there is a problem. defaultrouter
> > is only used to set route_default, which is *not* used. At least on
> > the code you quoted.
> This is getting fun :) Look closer at the first line I commented, then
> at the loop, and especially the eval.

since I've stumbled over the same 'what the the hell is going on
here?'-piece of shell script once upon a time, I've foreseen the
further development of this after having read the first two 
messages.
I had to set a few static routes, saw the empty 'static_routes'
configuration variable and just didn't grasped "what to do know"
with that variable.
I considered, that there has to be some underlying 'magic' similar
to the method used for the interface configuration.
Despite of this cognition I had to jump head first into the
rc.network script to investigate on 'how to use' the core variable
(static_routes) and the supplementary variables the right way.

It would be very nice, if 'somebody' (TM) would document the 
various 'dark magic' parts of the rc scripts.

But, ... a person priviledged to setup the routing for 
a system (aka system administrator aka 'root') should really be
able to parse 'sh'-code, shouldn't he?

-Andreas


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