Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 18:42:03 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why routed and not gated by default? Message-ID: <97Jun2.184213pdt.177489@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jun 97 13:32:31 PDT." <19970602223231.RC39608@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >I know that Bill Fenner will heavily object now Hm, I'm not sure that's the kind of name I want to have made for myself in the FreeBSD community =) routed used to screw up ppp/slip systems by trying to take charge of the default route even though the other systems installed their own. Not to sound too Terry-like, but this is a flaw in the BSD routing architecture; multiple routing daemons should be able to co-exist. We changed ppp and slip to add static routes, which routed won't fool with, but that's rather a hack. While lamenting the flawed architecture, the only realistic response is to disable routed on such systems. I still believe that router discovery should be enabled by default on ethernet-connected end-systems that aren't acting as routers themselves. Bill
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