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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:19:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us>
To:        Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov>
Cc:        proot@horton.iaces.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@freebsd.org, mike@newell.arlington.va.us
Subject:   Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960816151744.5292I-100000@bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us>
In-Reply-To: <199608161908.TAA18292@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov>

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On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Chris Shenton wrote:

> I've been trying to coerce pppd into installing the default route
> using the /etc/ppp/ip-up facility, but although the  pppd runs ip-up
> with effective UID root, if ip-up is a script, FreeBSD squashes the
> root privs (that, or pppd uses getuid() rather than geteuid(), still
> looking). I guess I could use a SUID perl script or some C code but
> this seems too simple to justify that...

You don't want a default route installed by the ppp daemon on the SERVER 
machine - only on the client side.  Your server needs to have a default 
route out its Ethernet interface, *NOT* its PPP interface!

 Much obliged,

Mike

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