From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 16:52:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19265 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:52:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19246 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:52:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hal@vailsys.com) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [192.168.128.47]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA16352; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:51:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from jaguar.vail.vailsys.com (jaguar.vale.com [192.168.129.46]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17230; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:51:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:51:49 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801220051.SAA17230@crocodile.vale.com> From: Hal Snyder To: jordyn@bestweb.net CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (jordyn@bestweb.net) Subject: Re: Why enable routed by default? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > X-Sender: jordyn@pop.bestweb.net > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:33:36 -0500 > From: "Jordyn A. Buchanan" > Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > At 10:24 AM +1030 1/22/98, Greg Lehey wrote: ... > >Can't we change the default to not starting the [routed] daemon? > > This would be a good idea. Even on systems that are not leaf nodes, I > think the demand for RIP is becoming increasingly small in the brave new > world of classless routing. (Yeah yeah, there's RIPv2, but that fails to > correct many of the other deficiencies of RIP). Having something like this > on by default can also add a bit of complication to your life when you are > expecting only your routers to be exchanging RIP updates and suddenly your > hosts start getting involved as well... ... Default of "routed" disabled sounds good here. Just wanted to say that we use a lot of RFC 1918 on our intranet, one Class C per collision domain. This has breathed new life into RIP, which is making a comeback after massive purge a year or so ago when LAN was subnetted to kingdom come.