From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 09:19:20 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA11701 for current-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:19:20 -0700 Received: from intercore.com (num1sun.intercore.com [205.198.76.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA11695 ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:19:18 -0700 Received: (robin@localhost) by intercore.com (8.6.9/8.6.4) id MAA06455; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:15:51 -0400 From: Robin Cutshaw Message-Id: <199506281615.MAA06455@intercore.com> Subject: Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:15:50 -0400 (EDT) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506281556.AA00902@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jun 28, 95 11:56:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 867 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > < 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