> True, but what is the point you are making?
I cant remember now.
>
> I can tell FreeBSD to add a default route via a learned IP address at
> the far end of my PPP link, automatically as soon as PPP gets the
> address from the Portmaster. FreeBSD lets me accept *any* IP address,
> not necessarily a static IP address, from the Portmaster and then
> FreeBSD automatically sets my Internet gateway because it will add a
> default route to the far end of the PPP link. Without the default
> route, no traffic destined for the Internet would go out. I'm certainly
> not going to set up explicit routes for every Internet destination I
> want to reach. That's the whole point of using a default route!
>
> I can't do that with an OR-U, can I?
> That's the crux of this discussion but we seem to be going in circles.
There is nothing you cant do on an OR-U that would prevent it from
functioning as a full featered ISDN router.
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