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 *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________