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SubjectRE: routing problems in 2.2.0-pre4
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On 04-Jan-99 Valient Gough wrote:
> I just installed 2.2.0-pre4 for testing, and I'm having serious routing
> problems, which are partially caused by the kernel automatically adding
> it's own routing information.
>
> I have a DSL connection, and I need basically a point to point link to
> my router.
[snip]
> I tried to set it up as a pointopoint link, but that doesn't work
> (ifconfig seems to ignore the pointopoint part).

Linux doesn't ignore it, ifconfig just doesn't display it. (Look at the routing
table, you should see a new entry for the router) You need to include
"netmask 255.255.255.255". If the default route is via the router anyway, you
won't need to add any extra routing entries.

> Is there a fix for this other then going back to 2.0.x?

If the above doesn't work with the netmask bit, grab the patch at
ftp://complicity.olf.co.uk:2121/pub/autoroute.patch and add a line saying:
echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_autoroute
...to your rc files, before the first ifconfig line. If you have to do this
(You shouldn't, really) let me know as I'll then hassle someone to get it
included as part of the main tree, rather than an obscure patch for people that
like do strange things with IP routing.

Ryan O'Connell - http://complicity.olf.co.uk:8080/
<nemesis@eh.org> -- <cs95rro@brunel.ac.uk>

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a
Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per per gallon,
and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
-- Robert Cringely, InfoWorld

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