From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 29 09:35:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA04169 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 09:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tm.net.my (janeway.tm.net.my [202.188.0.155]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA04156 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 09:35:18 -0800 (PST) From: sweeting@tm.net.my Received: from [202.184.153.110] ([202.184.153.110]) by mail.tm.net.my (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA18512 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 01:33:43 +0800 (SGT) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 01:33:43 +0800 (SGT) X-Sender: sweeting@mail.tm.net.my Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Q] why not use routed ? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.) If anyone could point me to resources on this , I will be very grateful. Thank you. chas