(PM) Re: indestructable route & more location stuff

Doug Ingraham (dpi@rapidnet.com)
Mon, 3 May 1999 15:08:22 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 3 May 1999 jamesh@swcp.com wrote:

> Here's the short version. I have an account at this ISP, My Netgear
> router dials in from home when I'm there causing the connection to go up.
> I also wanted a connection to be available from remotly so I created the
> location to call my netgear. I am assigned the static address of
> 198.59.115.158. The other portion of this route that is showing is my
> subnet. This is on a PM3 with ComOS 3.8. I basically want the pm3 to
> call my netgear give me the address of 198.59.115.158 and then destruct
> the route when it hangs up the connection. It calls once makes a route
> then the route never goes away. The 204.134.11.176/28 is announced by our
> perimater router. The 198.59.115.158 is something set up in RADIUS.

I don't understand what you mean by destruct the route. If you have a
location table in a portmaster then that box HAS to announce a route to
that IP address or subnet all the time. If it doesn't then there is no
way for traffic for that IP to ever find the PM which is what causes the
link to come up. So the only way to remove the route is to delete the
location table. I don't see where the route for the subnet is coming from
unless it is being learned somehow from the border router.

You should be able to call into the pm with the location in it and make a
connection without having any routing problems because that box already
has the route announcement. Calling a different box could cause problems.

Doug Ingraham I have a simple philosophy:
Rapid City, SD Fill what's empty.
USA Empty what's full.
Scratch where it itches.
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