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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:52:19 -0700
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
Cc: Yonny Cardenas <yonny@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Interface DOWN
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Daniel O'Callaghan scribbled this message on Sep 16:
> > router_a gated[190]: if_rtdown: DOWN route for interface ppp0
> > 200.20.30.1/255.255.255.255
> > router_b gated[154]: if_rtdown: DOWN route for interface ed0
> > 168.176.1.5/255.255
> 
> You probably did not declare the interface to be passive.  You should 
> declare ppp interfaces to be passive; not sure why ed0 went down. 
> 
> I use:
> 
> interfaces {
> 	interface all passive ;
> } ;

what does this do??

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