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

Mark Costlow (cheeks@swcp.com)
Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:06:23 -0600 (MDT)

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

Tom> Huh? Download routes?

Bad choice of terms. "receive routes via RIP" would have been better.

> 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.

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

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

OK, I'll give that a try. Is there any way to do it without setting a
destination IP? If I'm dialing into a rotary with several PMs which aren't
using reported_ip to report the same destination IP, that could throw a wrench
into things.

Thanks for the tip!

Mark

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