From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 19 07:21:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA18742 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 07:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts1-54.indigo.ie [194.125.133.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA18737 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 07:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA01769; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:23:26 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:15:42 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Re: Hosts learning routes in OSPF To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Maybe this is off-topic, but in an OSPF network, how do the > > end-nodes learn of up-to-date routes (I'm assuming that only > > the routers run OSPF)? > > The learn by using a default route that is one of the OSPF routers, > the OSPF router will send a redirect message to the host if there > is a better direct route to where this packet goes, or it will just > forward the packet if there is not a better local route. Thanks, Rodney. After I posted the question, I started thinking and reckoned that redirects might be the answer. > > > > > Is there the equivalent of a "routed -q" type facility? > > Nope, and not needed as far as I can see, the one function I > would like to see on OSPF (gated actually), and maybe I missed > it, is ``routed -g'' so that hosts on local nets can pick up > the default route from the wire instead of having to set it > on all of them. I think that rdisc can actually handle this > for me, but haven't tried to implement it here yet. I played a little bit with rdisc on Solaris, and it seems to work. Hmm, interesting... Mike ---