From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 09:30:37 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA12092 for current-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:30:37 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA12086 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:30:29 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA01016; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:30:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:30:14 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9506281630.AA01016@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Robin Cutshaw Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting In-Reply-To: <199506281615.MAA06455@intercore.com> References: <9506281556.AA00902@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199506281615.MAA06455@intercore.com> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > 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. There is a protocol for router discovery that someone (I think Paul Traina) imported an implementation of. Unfortunately, the code is not in a compilable state, and nobody appears to have touched it since it was imported. This is the right solution to your concern. > 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. Nonetheless, it is the way the Internet architecture (second edition) was designed. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant