On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
However, I also misread what Tom wrote (due to the different terminology conventions) and thought he was suggesting one would specify a network *parameter*, not a host *parameter*, when specifying a default route.
That is exactly what I said. You're still misunderstanding it. I think what you should do to convince yourself is to enter a 'route add host default enter.router.ip.here 1' on certain systems and see what wonderous things happen.
Tom