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To: "Jerry Bell" <jerry@reillyplating.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange ppp -alias problem/feature? 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I have ppp set up on a FBSD box running 2.2.2.  I can connect to the
> Internet using IP aliasing and everything works great, except one thing: 
> if the ppp connection to the Internet is saturated (ie. downloading
> something big), other computers on the network (via the LAN not PPP) have
> to wait for a packet to make it out on the ppp device and come back before
> the BSD box will allow the connection.
> 
> Obviously, the address of the ppp device (actuall tun0) is the default
> gateway for this box.  As far as I can tell, (and I can't find much in the
> way of documentation on this) the routes are tried in order, from lowest
> network to highest.  Is this correct?

If there's a specific route for a packet, it'll go there, otherwise 
it'll go to the default.  What does netstat -rn say when the link is 
up ?

[.....]
> Thank you,
> 
> Jerry Bell
> MIS
> Reilly Plating Company / M-Lok, Inc.
> Jerry@reillyplating.com

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