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To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@ice.cold.org>
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Subject: Re: Why routed and not gated by default? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jun 97 08:49:56 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:23:49 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Brandon Gillespie <brandon@ice.cold.org> wrote:
>Basically, other systems seem to be able to automatically setup gated just
>fine without problems (Digital Unix comes to mind).

The two things that it's trivial to configure gated for are rip and
router discovery, which are the things that routed does just fine.

  Bill