Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:37:45 -0600 From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard), FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current) Subject: Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting Message-ID: <199506281837.MAA03494@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <9506281556.AA00902@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <8337.804273321@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> <199506280552.WAA08478@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> <9506281556.AA00902@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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> If you are not a router, you have no business
> listening to them. HOSTS DO NOT NEED ROUTING INFORMATION.
OK, given your assertion's, HOW is machine B supposed to send data to
my machine?
Ethernet =
SLIP/PPP *
machine-A<=>machine-B<=>machine-C<*>{internet}
^
*
v
Nate's box
I have two options, and I chose the latter since it's much easier to
setup because we have other boxes also sitting off the machines in the
network.
1) Have machine A arp for my IP address.
2) Have machine A declare itself a router from my IP address
With your assumption, machine B does is not running any routing
software, so therefore it does not know to send packets to machine A in
order to get to my machine. Note, there are many machines similar to
machine B in my network, and I'm not about to add static routes to every
one of them to force routing to my machine.
Nate
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