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From: Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TCP) <lyndon@orthanc.com>
Subject: Re: bin/811: routed won't start on dataless machines 
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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