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To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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Subject: Re: Default routes? 
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> I'm setting up another laptop here with the box stock FreeBSD
> distribution, and ... I may just be tired or I may have a real question.  

No, it's real and somewhat of a key one.

> If I insert my ethernet card, how does the default route get set up?

It doesn't.  Yet.

> Brazen suggestion:  should we do this in pccard_ether?  Then have a
> variable like pccard_defaultrouter?  Or does it normally get handled in
> some other more correct place?

For now, do it in pccard_ether as a hack to get yourself going.  I am 
in the process of writing a new rc.interface script which is to be 
called when an interface arrives/departs, which will obviate this, but 
it's not yet ready for primetime.

mike