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From: lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: gated configuration problem
Keywords: gated defaultgateway
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Date: 14 Nov 90 02:31:38 GMT
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pbickers@groucho writes:

>On a Magnum 3000 under RISCos/4.51 I'm having a small networking problem.

	[Describes problems configuring routed and/or gated.]

>There is a simple solution. My local subnet has only one gateway.

>Thanks.
>-- 
>Paul Bickerstaff                 Internet: pbickers@neon.chem.uidaho.edu
>Physics Dept., Univ. of Idaho    Phone:    (208) 885 6809
>Moscow ID 83843, USA             FAX:      (208) 885 6173

    Since you only need a static route to a default gateway, you might
as well not run either routed or gated.  Instead just call 'route'
to add the default gateway.  I do this, and place the following lines
at the very end of the netdaemons_start() routine in /etc/init.d/netdaemons:

	#   Add routing commands here
	#   Example: "route add destination gateway 1"
	#
	route add 0.0.0.0 oreck 1

("oreck" is the name of my gateway, with its IP address defined in /etc/hosts.)
Placing the "route" command as the last thing in the netdaemons script
is cosmetic - it prevents the output line produced by route from interrupting
the list of deamons which gets echoed to the console when booting.

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