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Date:      Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:39:33 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The routes from hell
Message-ID:  <9501102239.AA13429@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9501102206.AA12951@blaise.ibp.fr>
References:  <9501101911.AA13067@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9501102206.AA12951@blaise.ibp.fr>

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<<On Tue, 10 Jan 1995 23:06:07 +0100 (MET), roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) said:

> Route cloning is fine except in one case : you have an IP provider
> with non-fixed addresses and a PPP link... The pppd will put a default
> route, the route code will learn the routes. You disconnect.
> You connect again at a latter time and you don't have the same address.

> The route are out and I have either to put a low timeout or nuke the routes
> manually...

This is supposed to happen automatically when the PPP interface goes
down.  If this is not happening, I would like to see the output of
`ifconfig -a' and `netstat -rn' for both before and after, and I'll
try to fix the problem.

-GAWollman

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