Eh? I worked on the end of the NSFNET project at Advantis. ANS always had their own GateD to insert on the NSS so the build of AIX we sent did not include GateD. But, perhaps one of the ANS folks such as Curtis V. who are around can provide authoritative statement. Tony Li wrote:

dhudes@graphnet.com (Mr. Dana Hudes) writes:

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I agree with Alex. People don't seem to realize that GateD ran the NFSNET backbone for years.

People need to recall the difference between rcp_routed and gated.

Tony