Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:34:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, jkh@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paul Richards: sysconfig routed setting Message-ID: <199506290734.AAA10884@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506282311.BAA00831@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Jun 29, 95 01:11:51 am
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> > > other routing protocol. If you are not a router, you have no business > > listening to them. HOSTS DO NOT NEED ROUTING INFORMATION. > > I agree with Garrett on this one. You only need routed/gated if you have > than one interface and you are a router. ^more Pretty hard to be router with out more than 1 interface :-) > If you have a single segment > you don't need a default route and if you have multiple segments and/or > connections (PPP, SLIP, whatever) then you always have a router to put > a defaultroute to. Evedintly no one has read my posting about more than one router and what happens if you use defaultroutes and the ``default'' router who would normally provide ``better'' redirects has crashed. Also some one poined out the performance side issue and all those uneeded redirects, unnessary use of a router is bad for the router as well, another thing I have first hand experince with. Nope, sorry, I have done way way to many reliable network setups and know that ``defaultroute'' is an evil ugly thing to do. Ever try to slap in a spare box at a different IP address to be the emergency router and have to go change defaultroutes on 200 hosts so you can debug the broken router but keep people up and running, can you say ``not fun!!!'. Look, this is all very simple really, routed -q works today for all most every one, and has for a very very long time. I know it is ugly, RIP sucks, it should and WILL dies. We don't have the elegant solution yet, but should some day soon. Until then just leave it alone, don't make it worse. > > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG > FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May 3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995 > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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