Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:10:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: mnewell@kaizen.net, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? Message-ID: <199608161610.LAA15418@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199608161532.JAA06486@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 16, 96 09:32:15 am
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> > > I use static routing around here with no problems. > > > > I found static routes to be a problem. If the ppp link goes down and a > > packet arrives it redirects the route out throught he default; when the > > link comes back up it doesn't get re-re-directed. :-( > > > > What we were trying to do is use the /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down > > to install static routes, but route won't work for non-root logins. :-( > > I remember something about this on the list, but I've not had a chance to > > research it. :-(!! > > /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down are run as root, no matter who the > login user is. This also means you must be careful what you put in > there, but since the environment is safeguarded pretty well it would be > hard to break into a system via them. I found under FreeBSD, um, I think 2.0.5R that this didn't work real well because route did additional checks for root permissions (I believe I got around it by forcing the uid and euid to 0, or something like that). It was a tad ugly. I don't do this anymore anyways - I use SLIP for any situations requiring routing. ... JG
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