From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 17:04:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21364 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21356 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA07194; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:04:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:04:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson To: Ben Black cc: Brandon Gillespie , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why routed and not gated by default? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Ben Black wrote: > 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. Not to mention that there are still fairly massive bugs floating around in gated. In 3.5beta4, which last I checked was the latest 3.5 release, they had little tricks like calling a routine that returned a pointer to static data, calling it again later from another function, and then the original function would try to use the now-stomped-on static data. The gated folks didn't seem to concerned about this, either. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.