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From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: routed is trashing my 'default' route
Message-ID: <DtvL48.px@ora.de>
Organization: O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag
References: <31C80512.6A80@bnr.ca> <31CB5341.41C6@onthenet.com.au> <4qqijq$f4@anorak.coverform.lan> <4qt5dn$dkd@symiserver2.symantec.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 17:40:56 GMT
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In <4qt5dn$dkd@symiserver2.symantec.com> tedm@agora.rdrop.com writes:

>In any case, RIP depends on broadcast traffic, and I don't believe that pppd
>will pass broadcast traffic out a serial line.

It doesn't.  In fact, routed works just fine over  point-to-point links.

You may get some unwanted effects over demand dialed links depending on
the version of routed you are using, though.
-- 
Christoph Badura
O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag