From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Carlson Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:31:28 +0000 Subject: Re: pppd creates route without "gateway" flag Message-Id: <18641.30512.331773.157910@gargle.gargle.HOWL> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org 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. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W