From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 17 22:40:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA21523 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA21504 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA03391; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:40:28 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199608180540.WAA03391@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Hosts learning routes in OSPF To: mike@NetworX.ie Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Michael Ryan at "Aug 18, 96 02:24:24 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. > > 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. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD