Router vendors are well known to implment things incorrectly to such an
extent that it brings into question whether we should blindly follow their
implmentations or start from scratch with the RFC's.
Fred
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> [mailto:owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of Sam Mortimer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 8:57 AM
> To: Mike Jagdis
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: howto disable auto route setup?
> i was pondering whether someone might make this point whilst i was out
> at lunch! my response is that we are discussing the routing
> functions of
> a general purpose OS. there is no reason why they should
> work differently
> from they way they might on a dedicated router. the router
> is probably
> doing it the right way. would it not makes sense to try to
> emulate the
> routers way of doing things? (it also occurred to that both
> teltrend's
> network iq series routers and bay's nautica products add the directly
> attached interfaces routes automatically too)
>
> Cheers,
> -Sam.
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