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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;)
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Subject: Re: trouble with telnet
Keywords: telnet, internet, communications
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Date: 27 May 91 18:25:05 GMT
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In <1991May17.122036.10011@cs.utk.edu> aib@ornl.gov (Buddy Bland) writes:

>If the host you are trying to reach is not on the
>same network or subnet, you must define a route with the "route add"
>command.  You may need to define a default route where you send all packets
>which are not on your local network.  This router will then forward the
>packets to the proper destination.  Look in Chapter 7 of the "A/UX Network
>System Admin" manual and at the man page for the route command for more
>information.

Note that the route command manipulates kernel tables directly, but that the 
routed process (/etc/in.routed, set to "wait" in /etc/inittab on the CDROM 
distribution of 2.0) doesn't see these changes. It is therefore a bad idea to 
use both the routed and the route command. Note that netstat -r cheats and 
shows you the kernel tables, NOT what the routed believes. Everybody ships the 
same crass code, so don't blame Apple for this one!

I personally recommend not bothering with the routed at all, expecially if 
there is only one way out to the big wide world: just use route to set a 
default route by typing

    route add 0.0.0.0 ourgateway 1

where ourgateway is the name or IP address of your gateway to the outside 
world. This could even replace the in.routed line in your inittab.

It is also in your best interests to participate in the Domain Name Service, 
expecially if you have Internet access. The A/UX documentation on this is a 
stright (but attributed) copy of the BSD documentation: they didn't even 
change the references to /etc/rc.local (sigh).

PS. The route/routed source of confusion only really matters on machines which 
are routers, e.g. those with more than one network interface. This includes 
slip. 
--

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