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From: reeder@ut-emx.UUCP (William P. Reeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: default routing in Annex
Keywords: how?
Message-ID: <10941@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 22:52:11 GMT
Organization: University of Texas Computation Center
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We have an Encore Multimax and several original Annex-MX's.  One of our
annexes serves as a network terminal server, the others are contain
slave terminals for our Multimax.  The annexes are all running release
4.0 software.

Question:  How do you set a default route?  We don't run routed
anywhere on campus (and refuse to), and the gateways file doesn't seem
to be able to do what I want, or at least the manual doesn't tell me
how to do what I want.  For example:

If I want traffic bound for any host on network 192.1.2.0 (a class
C network) to go through machine 128.83.1.1, then I could add the
following line to /usr/spool/erpcd/bfs/gateways and reboot the annex:

net 192.1.2.0 gateway 128.83.1.1 metric 1 hardwired

My problem is that I want ALL traffic to use 128.83.1.1 as a
gateway if there is no other known route.  The BSD route stuff
has the concept of a default route, does the Annex?  If so, how
do I set it?  Also, is there a way to set these things on the
fly if you are the superuser?  If not, why not?  I can't just
reboot my annex everytime I need to modify a route, it has too
many users for that.

-- William Reeder
reeder@emx.utexas.edu
-- 
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