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From: hutton@s3sun (Thomas Hutton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Question about route vs. routed
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Date: 22 Feb 89 06:57:23 GMT
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Routed is the routing daemon which speaks RIP.  This is used to pass routing
information between hosts in a domain (eg company, campus, etc).  This is 
called an "interior protocol" as it only is used within your domain.  
The information is used to route between systems and ethernets under
your control.

Since you state that you only have one connection to the internet, that is 
your gateway (and default route).  In your rc file comment out the /etc/routed 
lines and add a line of the form

/etc/route add 0 gatewayhost 2   

where gateway host is your system that talks to the internet.  Since this is
your only path out,  and you only have one ethernet, all your packets for off
site destinations should go to that gateway.

There is really no reason to want to run any interior routing in your case.

Thomas Hutton
hutton@scubed.com