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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:30:14 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting
Message-ID:  <9506281630.AA01016@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199506281615.MAA06455@intercore.com>
References:  <9506281556.AA00902@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199506281615.MAA06455@intercore.com>

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<<On Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:15:50 -0400 (EDT), Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com> 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

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