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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Does anyone have ppp working with 2.0?
Date: 30 Jan 1995 23:00:17 GMT
Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines)
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*Hobbit* <hobbit@asylum.sf.ca.us> writes:

>The remaining problem is getting routed to a> run and b> tell the machine
>the other end ONLY about hosts or subnets I want to tell it.  Hints in
>this department appreciated; reading the routed source isn't quite doing
>it for me, and gated is *huge*...

A wise old unix sage once told me: (CIDR || DEFAULT || DIE).

Translation:

Use default routes unless you can afford CIDR routing equipment :)

Cheers

Leigh (who has never intentionally run routed and hopes he never has to)
--
| "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart                |
|  from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> |
|  began to suspect 'Hungry' ..."  | C/- 195 Gilles Street     |
|   -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide  SA  5006        |