From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 7 16:54:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA18600 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA18594 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA20657; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:50:22 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:50:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709072350.RAA20657@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: "Rodney W. Grimes" CC: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don Croyle: make world failing at ppp install (again) In-Reply-To: <199709071827.LAA15739@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> References: <199709071250.NAA21742@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <199709071827.LAA15739@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rodney W. Grimes writes: > Running ppp does _NOT_ *requires* write access to the routing table, > this is much much much better handled by properly configuring > a real routing daemon and running real routing protocols. Requiring every user who wants to use FreeBSD PPP as a simple single-user workstation with a dial-up ISP account, or even as a simple router, to understand routing protocols and gated will guarantee that many will just go elsewhere. While I don't disagree with you about the capability of gated, losing the simple routing capabilities of ppp would be a stupid move. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com