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From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@ice.cold.org>
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Subject: Re: Why routed and not gated by default?
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because routed pretty much Just Works when used on the small scale for 
which it was designed.  gated is a hairy monster to properly configure 
and can easily mangle your routing tables with the slightest 
misconfiguration.


b3n