Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 13:00:02 -0800 From: Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TCP) <lyndon@orthanc.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/811: routed won't start on dataless machines Message-ID: <199511082100.NAA19081@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/811; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TCP) <lyndon@orthanc.com>
To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/811: routed won't start on dataless machines
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 12:57:14 -0800
>>>>> "Garrett" == Garrett A Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
Garrett> No, it assumes that there is at least one router out
Garrett> there that always knows the route to the server.
The situation is a dataless laptop running over a radio link. There
are several geographically dispersed fixed "gateways" that link the
portables to the main net. Which of these gateways is accessable via
the RF path is unknown at boot time.
Can we please stop ASSuming and just fix the problem?
--lyndon
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