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From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
Subject: Re: router floppy
To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:09:42 -0800 (PST)
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> From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net>
> Subject: Cool!  An all new ROUTER FLOPPY
> To: hackers@freebsd.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 23:46:05 CST
> 
> I spent some time messing around tonite and wound up being able to build a
> nifty one-diskette "router floppy".
> 
> It is just a proof of concept, probably won't work in < 8MB RAM, etc., but
> if anyone wants to look at it, it's at

http://www.rdrop.com/freertr/ isn't just a proof of concept: it's been
in use for about 2 years, does run in 4 Meg (it's based on 1.1), and if
I do say so myself, has a nice little configuration utility :-)

The one problem it has is that if you have more than one SLIP connection
drop, and they come back up in a different order, the routing tables
don't get updated and packets start going out the wrong interfaces.  As
that's infrequent, it hasn't been a high priority to upgrade it to the
2.1 kernel (which has a workaround for that problem), although it's been
discussed recently.

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