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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Route cloning (disable - how to?)
Date: 3 Aug 1996 18:46:10 GMT
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tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) wrote:

> : Then the question is still the same: If pppd inserts a default for you
> : when the link comes up, *why* do you need to run gated or routed at all
> : on your machine?

> My ISP's network is 205.206.213.0
> My network is 205.150.43.0
> 
> Without routing software, how is the presence of my network
> and the path to it announced?

It is not to be announced at all.  If your ISP is too stupid to setup
a route for you (and your net), he should perhaps quit his job.

Relying on RIP route announcement for the remote end is the worst he
could do.  His customers could announce _any_ network on the remote
end, and he will blindly believe it?  I can't imagine that somebody is
that stupid!  (Btw., _he_ can and should use GateD -- without RIP --
doing the job.)

On your side, no routed or GateD is necessary.  The other machines in
your network know their gateway anyway, and pppd is inserting the
static route once it is up.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)