Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:32:31 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why routed and not gated by default? Message-ID: <19970602223231.RC39608@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970602100912.7687A-100000@ice.cold.org>; from Brandon Gillespie on Jun 2, 1997 10:13:57 -0600 References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970602100912.7687A-100000@ice.cold.org>
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As Brandon Gillespie wrote: > Just curious, why do we still have the antiquated routed as our default > router daemon? There should be no default router daemon at all. In my, arguably humble, opinion, that's the only correct default. People who are actually talking RIP or rdisc on their wire should really hit a button and say: ``Yes, i want it.'' I think sysinstall had this misfeature disabled for quite some time, but it seems it never made it into a release this way. I know that Bill Fenner will heavily object now :), but i really don't consider his network environment to be the ultimate generic networking environment applicable to all FreeBSD users either. The worst thing i've seen in this respect was a Solaris machine which, upon seeing two ethernet cards, decided that it now has to announce this fact to the entire world, without asking first. (This machine was intended to become a firewall, so this decision was doubly bogus.) Needless to say, it was a customer's machine, running at a customer's IP address in our network (with my machine being aliased into this net), and the bogus RIP broadcasts caused quite a bit of Internet costs for us until i noticed _what_ has been the problem. So much for why i consider ``being smart'' to be ugly. Only the operator knows what is applicable for him. We once agreed with Bill Fenner that at the very least, the default arguments to routed should be ``-Pno_rip -q''. There's absolutely no reason for why routed should trust any (potentially forged) RIP broadcast on the wire. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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