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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Why routed and not gated by default? 
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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Bill Fenner wrote:

> 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.

FWIW, Jeffrey Hoenig now at BSDI made their routed a perl script that
calls gated.