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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>
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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

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