Re: Can't make OR-HS dial-on-demand

Tom Samplonius (tom@sdf.com)
Sun, 6 Jul 1997 22:15:58 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Mark Costlow wrote:

> only problem is that it won't dial on demand. Something I saw on the list
> said that if there was a location set to on_demand, then the router would
> establish a connection at boot time to doanload routes. This one does not do
> that.

Huh? Download routes?

...
> Note the lack of a default route (0.0.0.0). I have "default routing" turned
> on, and the OR learns its default route after the connection is established.

That just means that the OS will accept a default route via RIP. That
isn't much good for a dial-up connection.

Solution? Set a destination ip address on the location. Set the
default gateway to this address.

Tom