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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 1995 22:54:04 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com>, Scott Mace <smace@crash.ops.neosoft.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Subject:   Re: equal cost ip forwarding
Message-ID:  <SbCVYEma70@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9508211949.H7452-0100000@kryten.atinc.com>; from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Mon, 21 Aug 1995 19:44:04 -0400 (EDT)
References:  <Pine.3.89.9508211949.H7452-0100000@kryten.atinc.com>

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In message <Pine.3.89.9508211949.H7452-0100000@kryten.atinc.com>
    Jonathan M. Bresler writes:

>2) Keepalive protocol are realised. It checks if any packets are received
>from this line, and drop connection (and reestablish it) if no this packets
>was received during defined time. In addition, driver can be configured
>to wait few packets from the line before interface would be turned on.
>Driver can send dummy _keep alive_ packets every N seconds to
>keep line _alive_ even if no routing / icmp packets are transmitted
>between systems.

We already have that.

>3) Driver fixes interface numbers for every line, to prevent
>routing problems (most routers dislike if some interface change it's
>addresses fast).

We already have that.

-- 
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