Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 12:44:16 -0500 From: Lars Fredriksen <lars@odin-corporation.com> To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: default route not set up?? Message-ID: <372C8EF0.DCE3BD49@odin-corporation.com> References: <372A1AE6.4E2738D4@odin-corporation.com> <xzpn1zpvyup.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <372AF60B.E11A6989@newsguy.com> <xzpiuadvsgw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990502124500.K6095@paert.tse-online.de>
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Hi,
There are two things going on with the route setup.
if [ "x$defaultrouter" != "xNO" ] ; then
static_routes="default ${static_routes}"
route_default="default ${defaultrouter}"
fi
1) since route_default is never used, it should be deleted, ignore that
line above.
2) if you set defaultrouter to anything other than "NO", the
static_route variable gets a "default" route
route label added, and this label will get evaled later on.
So rc.conf should read: (example from my setup)
defaultrouter="YES" # Set to default gateway (or NO).
static_routes="local" # Set to static route list (or leave
empty).
route_local=" -net <net ip> <host>"
route_default=" default <host>"
So, two actions are needed. The route_default line from rc.network should
get deleted, and the comment
in rc.conf for the defaultrouter variable should be clearer.
If others agree, I can go and commit the fixes for that ....
Lars
Andreas Braukmann wrote:
> 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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