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From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Why routed and not gated by default? 
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well, i discovered today that ip aliasing on BSDI involves aliasing to 
loopback and adding arp table entries, so i don't think i trust them ;)

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Michael Hancock wrote:

> 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.
> 
>