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From: sapa47@source.isd.state.in.us (Raymond L. Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Route cloning (disable - how to?)
Date: 1 Aug 1996 00:34:24 -0500
Organization: State of Indiana
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Thus it was recorded by the prophets, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) said:
>But even Solaris has been infected by the `routed' disease.
>i found that the new Solaris machine has been firing up a ``routed
>-s'' after noticing that it has got two ethernet interfaces...  What
>a silly idea!

Please excuse me for the novice question, but... doesn't FreeBSD do
the same thing if you're using routed instead of gated?  According to
routed(8) it does that whenever it detects multiple interfaces or a
point-to-point link up.  And an even more novice question... what's
wrong with this?  What should it do if you're using routed?

>Seriously, dump routed, and use GateD if you need.  Maybe the updated
>routed in -current is worth the while, i haven't tried it.  It's a
>total rework by the author (Michael VanLoon, if i'm not mistaken).

If things "work" with routed, then what sort of advantages can one get
by moving to gated instead?
-- 
Raymond L. Gilbert           "...the present rule in computing the circle's  
pi@isd.state.in.us            area is entirely wrong..."                     
http://source.isd.state.in.us/pi         - Indiana House Bill No. 246, 1897