From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 10:20:45 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA14014 for current-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 10:20:45 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA14008 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 10:20:43 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA09888; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 10:20:34 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506281720.KAA09888@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 10:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: robin@intercore.com, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506281630.AA01016@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jun 28, 95 12:30:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1231 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. Okay, great, when this works and can fully replace what routed -q does, I am all for it!! But until THEN, nothing is going to convince me that we should change the current default of routed -q. > > > 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. And you think that CSRG screwed up??? WTF is going on, we are going backwards!!! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD