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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: [NetBSD] routed vs gated Message-ID: <1993Jun16.040229.435@uvm.edu> Keywords: gated, routed Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <1vlv6lINN3kl@news.u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 04:02:29 GMT Lines: 33 In article <1vlv6lINN3kl@news.u.washington.edu> ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter) writes: >On my campus, we use gated (RIP) verses the routed method for network >routing. This maybe a REAL silly question but... In point of fact, the RIP implementation in GateD is a distant descendant of Berkeley's routed; in any case, the protocol is standard and it makes no difference who's version of it you use. That said, if your machine is not a router, you probably shouldn't be running /any/ flavor of routing daemon. Instead, you should pick a convenient router on your subnet and use route add default address.of.your.router in /etc/netstart. Some engineers from SGI will probably followup and disagree with this paragraph. Finally, to answer the poster's question (:-), yes, you can compile GateD on 386BSD or NetBSD. Simply copy the sample configuration file for vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu and replace the KVM_TYPE_BSD44 with KVM_TYPE_RENO, and everything should work. (WARNING for network hackers: GateD won't like it if you change the size of one of the fields in struct ifnet! If you do this, you must recompile GateD. That's why I'm not running it right now :-) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant