Re: default gateway on an office router

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:25:37 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, David S. Graves wrote:

> If I have an ISDN office router that might be dialing into different
> locations -- what should I set the default router to?
>
> Really, when you get to thinking about it, this is a PPP connection, so it
> shouldn't matter -- is 255.255.255.255 a valid default router address?

Why set it to anything then? The default route is used ONLY if it cannot
find an address for a packet on the local net or on any of its learned
routes or static routes. When the OR-U dials up and exstablishes a
successful connection, there should be a route in the table at that time
for it to use.

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