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From: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com>
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Subject: Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting
To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:28:36 -0400 (EDT)
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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