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From: Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] default route problem
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 14:57:00 -0400
To: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com

It is indeed enabled by default, as INETCFG -G MULTIDFRT will confirm:

#Inetcfg:       CURRENT DEFAULT MINIMUM MAXIMUM
multidefrt      1       1       0       1       Multiple Default Routes ON/OFF

Note the value in the "DEFAULT" column. I think its lack of familiarity to most of us is based on two issues:

  1. Most of us (until recently, with the advent of Wi-Fi) use(d) a
     single NIC with a single address, and practically none of the more
     advanced routing capabilities of OS/2 brought to us in the ported
     AIX stack (which so closely resembles the BSD design); and
  2. Most of us use DHCP, and with only a single interface enabled for
     DHCP at a given time, the ability to take advantage of MULTIDFRT
     is somewhat constrained.

The above notwithstanding, this may indeed prove to be a valuable configuration option for us, and one worth exploring further.

On 10/02/2005 05:48 am, Søren Ager thus wrote :
On 28-09-05 10.33, Dave Saville wrote:

inetcfg -s multidefrt 0
Which does what exactly? Help just says enable multiple default routes. How
does that work then?

0 means disable - I think it might be enabled by default



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