Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:10:19 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: lowell@world.std.com (Lowell Gilbert) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a dedicated network router? Message-ID: <380a991f.953106064@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAILrd6yad139e4.fsf@world.std.com> References: <3807AB5B.29DEC712@ndsu.nodak.edu> <MAILrd6yad139e4.fsf@world.std.com>
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On 17 Oct 1999 18:33:42 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Peter Schultz <Peter_Schultz@ndsu.nodak.edu> writes: > >> It is our duty to warn you that, even when FreeBSD is configured in this >> way, it does not completely comply with the Internet standard >> requirements for routers; however, it comes close enough for ordinary >> usage. >> --------------------- >> >> What does this mean... what is the problem? Is it something to be >> concerned about? > >Several of us wrote up comments on this the last time someone asked, >within the last six months. The mailing list archives should have >those discussions. [But the short version is: if you haven't already >read RFC 1918, FreeBSD may well be *better* for your purposes than a >completely compliant router. But I'd still recommend reading it.] Hello, As someone who uses FreeBSD as a dedicated router, I try and follow any discussions on routing very closely. I dont recall any such discussion you refer to i.e. issues pertaining to routing and RFC non publically advertised prefixes. Can you ellaborate, or point the list in the right direction ? I am very interested in finding out what I missed. I searched through all of questions for the last year and could not find any messages that dealt with routing and any special way FreeBSD handles or does not handle non publically routed IP space. Thanks, ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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