Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com> To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting Message-ID: <199506281615.MAA06455@intercore.com> In-Reply-To: <9506281556.AA00902@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jun 28, 95 11:56:15 am
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> > <<On Tue, 27 Jun 1995 22:52:17 -0700 (PDT), "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> said: > > > ``Should'' and ``probably'' are not very convincing words, > > Let me word this more strongly: > > A machine which is not directly involved in forwarding packets > has no business running a routing process, PERIOD. Routing > processes run on routers and routers only. > I'm not sure that I agree with this. One of the purposes of routed -q is to allow a host to make an intelligent decision as to where to send an originated packet. I've got several routers on a network and several routers one or two networks deep so I prefer to send packets (that my host originates) to the appropriate router. You could argue that I should use a default and suffer from either slower throughput or redirects but I would argue that this is inadequate. robin
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