From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 12 00:50:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07450 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07440 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA10549 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:50:52 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA27272 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:50:51 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA09355 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:44:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604120744.JAA09355@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: PPP routing problem To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:44:04 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604120234.MAA20656@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Apr 12, 96 12:34:25 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As michael butler wrote: > You could run gated, which seems to keep track of the links that are up (or > down) correctly and tells the kernel, Doesn't help much either. If the link is down, it will be removed from the kernel routing table. However, since the address is out of the range of the local ethernet, resolving it will fall back to ARP then again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)