Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:21:20 +0000 (GMT) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: howto disable auto route setup? |
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On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Paul Jakma wrote: > > On 29 Jan 1999, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > > > Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie> wrote: > > > >Does anyone know how to disable the new 2.1/2.2 /feature/ of > > > >automatically adding route for ifconfig up'd interfaces?? > > > > > > Ummm...why? > > > > for backwards compatibility maybe. > > > > because i don't want to have to have different config scripts for > > machines running 2.0 and 2.2. > > > > because i don't have the time at the moment to delve into diald's > > source code, etc.. > > > > Metoo. I like to keep control about the routing, but with 2.1.121 or > so the kernel claimed to know better. Of course it had no idea about > the wished dial on demand configuration and broke the routing with > each new autoloaded network interface. Some very ugly workarounds > (especially for Linux) became necessary within pppd and ipppd. >
Alan Cox's announcement for one his .13?-ac patches included support for disabling "auto route". i've looked through the 132-ac{9,11} patches and can't find it.
i think it's a nice feature, but a little bit time to make the transition would be nice.
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