From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 23:51:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA10985 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA10978 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA09812 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:51:21 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15061; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:29:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970603082931.JL57049@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:29:31 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why routed and not gated by default? References: <19970602223231.RC39608@uriah.heep.sax.de> <97Jun2.184213pdt.177489@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <97Jun2.184213pdt.177489@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Jun 2, 1997 18:42:03 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Fenner wrote: > >I know that Bill Fenner will heavily object now > > Hm, I'm not sure that's the kind of name I want to have made for myself > in the FreeBSD community =) :-) > I still believe that router discovery should be enabled by default > on ethernet-connected end-systems that aren't acting as routers > themselves. And my point is that the operator should be required to actively hit a button before this is turned on. The operator could be automatically guided to this question however, e.g. in Novice installation mode. There are a lot of ethernets on this planet where even running router discovery is at best a waste of virtual memory (since there's simply nothing to discover). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)