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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP
Date: 1 Jun 1997 09:58:27 GMT
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I wrote:

> > I assume you misunderstood me?  FreeBSD doesn't support it.  AFAIR,
> > the FreeBSD 'route' command don't properly support non-continuous
> > netmasks - you can't remove them.
> 
> route delete -net <addr> -netmask 0xfeedbacc wouldn't work for you?

Indeed, seems there's a bug somewhere.  Well, as a stop-gap measure,
`route flush' does work for them, at least.  You've got commit privs,
Evind, did you?  *hint hint* :-)  You don't even need to file a PR...
you can fix it yourself. ;-)

-- 
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. ;-)