Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:28:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com> To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting Message-ID: <199506282028.QAA07676@intercore.com> In-Reply-To: <9506281630.AA01016@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jun 28, 95 12:30:14 pm
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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. > And, unfortunately, not all routers implement this protocol (i.e. ascend). > > 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. > The "Internet architecture"? Are you refering to a specific routing protocol (like BGP) or a biblical reference? :-) I still believe that in a high performance, production network you may want any given host, router or not, to know the best, most efficient route to it's clients/servers. robin
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