James Carlson writes: > 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. Why do you say it's a gateway route? It doesn't have a gateway address. It's a route to the 0.0.0.0/0 network via the ppp0 device. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
