From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 13 11:21:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25446 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25402 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22686; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:21:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA14204; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:53:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810131153.MAA14204@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: Richard Wackerbarth , fjaccard@urbanet.ch, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [GIMPS] /proc/net/route needed In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:31:33 PDT." <199810122331.QAA00540@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:53:02 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >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. > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message