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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Bryan C. Andregg wrote: > > their packets more efficiently. Consider a case where you have a few > > access servers and unix servers on the same switch and a router connecting > > that POP to your backbone. Having a routing protocol on those unix boxes > > means they can send packets directly to the appropriate access server (or > > the router) rather than everything to the router, just to have it spit the > > packets back out headed for an access server on that segment. > > Pardon my ignorance here, but wont ICMP redirects take care of this situation > already? Some platforms don't deal well relying on redirects. The first time they try to reach a destination, a redirect causes them to insert a host route in their routing table. If that destination moves (say a static IP connecting to whatever access server they happen to hit), some OS's will refuse to accept further redirects pointing the destination toward a different gateway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *[email protected]*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________
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