Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:19:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov> Cc: proot@horton.iaces.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@freebsd.org, mike@newell.arlington.va.us Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960816151744.5292I-100000@bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us> In-Reply-To: <199608161908.TAA18292@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov>
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On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Chris Shenton wrote: > I've been trying to coerce pppd into installing the default route > using the /etc/ppp/ip-up facility, but although the pppd runs ip-up > with effective UID root, if ip-up is a script, FreeBSD squashes the > root privs (that, or pppd uses getuid() rather than geteuid(), still > looking). I guess I could use a SUID perl script or some C code but > this seems too simple to justify that... You don't want a default route installed by the ppp daemon on the SERVER machine - only on the client side. Your server needs to have a default route out its Ethernet interface, *NOT* its PPP interface! Much obliged, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein | | Affiliation: | are mine. You can take them or | | Address: | leave them. Flames to /dev/null. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike@Newell.arlington.va.us | http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | "Peace. It's wonderful!" Father Divine. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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