<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 10 Oct 2005, at 05:11, Robert Ameeti wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">At 9:43 AM -0500, 10/7/05, Brian Lalor wrote:</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Oct 7, 2005, at 8:59 AM, lj Palmer wrote:</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I don't know what the official location is, but I've been sticking things in /etc/rc.local. Presently I'm using using it to start postfix.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">How "official" is rc.local?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">With Tiger, a launchd item is probably the best way to go; you can just copy the file around to the various servers...</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And what pray tell does route add -net do?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Robert Ameeti</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">It adds a static route.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">If my local network is on 10.1.1.x and the local traffic at a remote site is on 10.2.1.x and I have a host on my local network that has a VPN to the remote network say 10.1.1.20 I can ask my computer to use that machine to send any traffic to the remote network so it becomes joined to this network.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">route add -net 10.2.1 gw 10.1.1.20</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Regards, Rob.</FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>