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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: routed is trashing my 'default' route Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 21:02:52 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <31D3596C.A93@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31C80512.6A80@bnr.ca> <31CB5341.41C6@onthenet.com.au> <4qqijq$f4@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Brian Somers wrote: > > Tony Griffiths (tonyg@onthenet.com.au) wrote: > : Basically I doubt that your ISP is sending RIP packets down the wire at > : you and certainly *doesn't* want any RIP packets from you, thus 'routed' > : (what an entirely appropriated name to give this piece of software > : although they got the spelling wrong! ;-) ) will timeout *ALL* your > : routes, including those you added statically or automatically via PPP. > > I don't believe this. If it is the case, then I assert that it is wrong. > routed has no right to delete static routes. Consider this: > [Example deleted] > > Anyway, I run 'routed -q' and have static routes on my home machine, > and routed's never deleted _ANY_ of them on me. > I must concur. Every one of my FreeBSD installations, from my local gateway/httpd server/etc on down, had routed -q enabled on it by the install routine, and no routes have *ever* been killed by any local mechanism other than the normal timeout/expiration of non-static routes. Ken