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From: mminnich@UDEL.EDU (Mike Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP discussion at the Interoperability Conference
Message-ID: <8712111138.aa17290@Huey.UDEL.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 87 19:25:29 GMT
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Isn't there a problem with dynamically changing the kernel's routing table
(via a slattach/sldetach mechanism) while user level routing agents 
such as egpup, routed, or gated are running?  

This has typically not been a problem for hardwired SLIP connections,
since the slip interfaces can be configured before routing agents start up,
and are left alone thereafter.

One solution would be to home all dial-in connections on another host
that would presumably use static routing, but that requires the
"host" to function as a "gateway", which is something I would like to 
minimize.

mike