From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 13:01:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA27547 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:01:29 -0800 Received: from iis (iis.webnet.com.au [203.8.105.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA27523 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:01:02 -0800 Received: from jazzy.phase-one.com.au (gw.phase-one.com.au [203.21.35.254]) by iis (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA23844; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 08:04:35 +1100 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 08:01:44 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Marelas X-Sender: maral@jazzy.phase-one.com.au To: Luigi Rizzo cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall In-Reply-To: <199511271312.OAA02066@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Querying foreign hosts with SNMP is considered bad style, and is very > > unlikely to yield responses anyway. > > Personally I would like to use it to extract routing info from routers > on the path between my node and some destinations. > > I assume these info are already communicated to nearby nodes via > routed or some other protocol, so I don't believe there is much > "sensitive" information. Any ideas on whether this is considered > bad style or if there is an alternate/polite way of getting the same info ? > Run routed with -s to advertise its routes, that includes on all nodes. Btw, this is the default.. Gateways which can not be learn't, should be added in /etc/gateways and marked as passive (the route does not change due to any routing information received). ie. net foo.bar.com gateway gw.foo.bar.com metric X passive where X is the hop count (metric) But then, im not sure if additional routing information is what your after from these routers. Peter