Re: pppd creates route without "gateway" flag

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Bill Unruh writes:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Joakim Wennergren wrote:
> 
> > I just looked at my routing table, and the route pppd created does not
> > have the "G" flag like I'm used to, is there a reason for this?
> 
> PPP is Peer to Peer Protocol. Ie, it is from one peer to another. It has
> nothing whatsoever to do with gateways, etc. 

I think the original poster is talking about the default route
inserted by the "defaultroute" option.  As he rightly notes, it's
missing the "G" flag:

> > 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0

And that is in fact a gateway route.  The issue is whether that flag
actually matters on Linux.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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