From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 09:31:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA27218 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA27207 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA06788; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:28:52 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:28:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199608161628.KAA06788@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Joe Greco Cc: mnewell@kaizen.net (Mike Newell), nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? In-Reply-To: <199608161625.LAA15564@brasil.moneng.mei.com> References: <199608161625.LAA15564@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > As a workaround I log into our box as root [ugh!] to invoke pppd, but > > clearly that's not the answer. I'm running 2.1-RELEASE; maybe things > > changed in 2.1.5? > > Yeah yeah that's the ticket. Verrrry familiar problem. > > I believe I hacked a copy of route to fix this problem and installed it as > /etc/ppp/route... *Wow* I completely forgot about that it was so long ago. I did the *exact* same thing, as a matter of fact I may still have the old binary sitting in my ppp directory. :) I needed to do this in order to get things working right, but then changed from using 'route' to do the routing to ARP routing once the route bug got fixed. Nate