Re: Proper workaround of an iface route to pppoe

[César Catrián C. <ccatrian%eml.cc@localhost>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:02 +0200, "Martin Husemann" 
<martin%duskware.de@localhost>
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 04:42:16PM -0300,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar=20Catri=E1n=20C. ?= wrote:
> > The 'easy workaround' must remember the dynamic IP and delete its iface
> > route
> > to be able to renew it when the interface is going up again.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Martin

In 'dial on demand mode', the only route added is the default route, the
peer.
The interface IP is not routed as directly reachable. So every packet
sent to
the leased IP from the local host travels first to the peer and then is
sent
back again.

Why? It doesn't have to be this way.


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