Very Computer

I know this has something to do with routing, because if i have pppd set
up for demand dialing, my masquerading box dials out when i try to
connect between these two LOCAL machines.

Any ideas on how I can get rid of this problem (other than keeping my
link up all the time) would be greatly appreciated.

J. Patrick Graves

Given that I don't know beans about masquerading, I would first make
sure that the local IPs are in the /ect/hosts file on both boxes.

Then I would look in /etc/hosts.conf and make sure there was a line
  order hosts, bind
and not
  order bind, hosts
which might cause this kind of problem.

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Running tcpdump on the gateway machine showed that a message tagged with
rip-resp was was causing the delay.  Assuming that the rip was Rouoting
Internet Protocol, I looked closer at gated and found that my gated.conf
file was a empty file (i.e. it han no rules in it).  After copying
/etc/gated.conf.sample to /etc/gated.conf, my problem went away.  ARP still
causes my connection to go up, but won't hang a request to a local machine.

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