From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 29 19:20:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01517 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 19:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from caliban.dihelix.com (caliban.mrtc.org [199.4.33.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01509 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 19:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from langfod@localhost) by caliban.dihelix.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) id RAA13942; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 17:19:59 -1000 (HST) Message-Id: <199703300319.RAA13942@caliban.dihelix.com> Subject: Re: [Q] why not use routed ? In-Reply-To: from "sweeting@tm.net.my" at "Mar 30, 97 01:33:43 am" To: sweeting@tm.net.my Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 17:19:59 -1000 (HST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "David Langford" X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk sweeting@tm.net.my >Just for completion and to satisfy my curiosity, does anyone >have any pointers to resources on routed, in particular : > >In addition to FreeBSD machines, we also have several AIX and Digital Unix >boxes and they all use routed. In the past I was warned against using >routed with FreeBSD.... and sure enough, turning it off in /etc/sysconfig cured >the problems that I was having at the time. >(The problems were regarding virtual domains for email ) > >Why is it that people here tend to advise against using routed ? > From what i understand, routed automatically sets up >the routing tables so it seems better than specifying static routes. >(although with each of my FreeBSD boxes connected directly to the central >router, I suppose there is only one route to add for each machine and >it is unlikely to change.) The biggest problem with routed is that it acts very stupid. Your best bet is to have a smart default router and point your hosts to it. If you have multi-homes host use gated. It is easily configurable to whatever you need (or dont need). You can have your multi-homed host running gated ONLY send routing information to your smart default router. One of the biggest problems is if I have multiple routers on a network the other hosts running "routed -q" will arbitrarily" lose the default routes. This is very annoying. -David Langford langfod@dihelix.com