Subject: Re: Current kernel has routing problems?
To: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
From: Wiker, Raymond <etorwi@eto.ericsson.se>
List: current-users
Date: 10/24/1996 09:21:46
Curt Sampson writes:
 > On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Gorgonio Araujo wrote:
 > 
 > > Isn't this the most common case? If your provider has more the one
 > > comunication server, how can you guess which one will take the call? Why
 > > doesn't pppd re-configure its interface and also default route after the
 > > connection based on the negotiation with its pear?
 > 
 > What's to reconfigure? Why does it matter what the local system
 > thinks the IP address is on the remote end of the connection?

	Humm. pppd doesn't allow the remote address to be different
from the given address (whether from the command line or an options
file) when it's configured for demand-dial.  This may well be an
unnecessary restriction in pppd, as iijppp manages fine.

	//Raymond.