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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: New routed
To: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home)
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 02:43:49 +1000 (EST)
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Tom Torrance at home writes:

> I still think that the new routed -q deleting a static route is a bug.

It's doing precisely what it is documented to do in the default case .. no
routing info => a dead interface. The route is then removed after a suitable
'hold down' period.

What does the addition (per the man page) of ..

	net 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 gateway <ISP_address> metric 1 passive

 .. to /etc/gateways do ?

Alternatively, your ISP could advertise a default route,

	michael