Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:53:02 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.NET>, fjaccard@urbanet.ch, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [GIMPS] /proc/net/route needed Message-ID: <199810131153.MAA14204@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:31:33 PDT." <199810122331.QAA00540@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > >I can't imagine why a user-space application needs to access *routing*
> > >information. Why not complain to the people that wrote it?
Natd needs to know if the interface address changes (routing socket).
Ppp wants to nuke all routes for a given interface when it goes away.
> > >From what I know about the GIMPS project, it is probably attempting to
> > determine if there is an active route to the outside. It does this so
> > that it can decide whether, or not, to attempt to connect to its external
> > server.
> >
> > I suspect that this was done to avoid bringing up a dialup connection, etc.
>
> Sorry, I'll try that again. I can't imagine why anyone would choose
> this approach, which is clearly unnecessarily system-dependant.
And doesn't work as dial-on-demand apps will have created the
necessary routing entries and UPd the interface already.
> --
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