Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:44:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: "Humprey C. Sy" <humprey@linux1.dlsu.edu.ph>, fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tun0 message Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960715102954.2902A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960713190322.1065I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Doug White wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote:
>
> > > Routed is telling you something. That something should be "don't run me
> > > unless you have to." :-) It's a normal message, but unless you have to,
> > > don't run routed; disable it in /etc/sysconfig.
> >
> > And why not run routed? Because it is not in my interest? Or whose?
> > This advice is often given and never explained. I find that not
> > running routed causes long delays in booting and also in running
> > some programs.
>
> Then you need to remove references to the ${hostname} in /etc/sysconfig
> and replace them with your IP.
>
> And make sure your routing table setup in sysconfig is right too.
The machine with the long delays without routed is my home machine, which
sometimes makes slip connections with a dynamic IP assigned and sometimes
makes a ppp connection with a fixed IP. It has a hostname that Stanford's
name server knows about (in relation to the fixed IP address). I would
therefore not want to use a fixed IP address instead of a host name. So I
run routed -s on it, and it's happy. On my office machine, which is the
ppp server, routed -q runs and this appears necessary--I think--to handle
the proxy arp instruction (and ipfw is running also).
>
> Problem with routed is that if your router goes bonkers then you can kiss
> your default route goodbye. I got bit by it once and stopped using it
> right then and there.
But the default route goes to the router! How else are the packets going
to get out????
Annelise
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