RIP on serial ports (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 17 May 1997 20:43:20 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Stephen Fisher shaped the electrons to say...
>Why do Portmasters always seem to come with RIP set to "on" on all of the
>ports? Most admins probably don't notice (you can't tell with show sXX
>even) and with it on users can inject and get routes from you. If you

Not true - since the port settings are ignored for dialin users. The
user entry will override the port settings for dial in, and the location
table will for dialout.

It has just always been that way, and we don't tend to change things
because then it confuses existing admin scripts people have, etc.

-MZ

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