Default Route: Broadcast on or off (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 29 May 1997 12:03:21 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Todd Knaus shaped the electrons to say...
>I am configuring a new PM3 and have Broadcast turned on in the global

This doesn't actually turn broadcast on anywhere - it selects whether or
not the unit broadcasts itself as a default route IF broadcast is actually
enabled on an interface.

>setup. My question is, if I have Broadcast on for the PM3 do I need it on
>for the individual PPP users as well ? If I do have it on for both am I
>creating way to much traffic/collisions/etc. ?

It is *highly* unusually to do active routing over a dialin link.

-MZ

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