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Re: Router/Gated config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H. Peter Anvin)
Sun May 5 00:21:30 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 3 May 1996 20:09:38 GMT
In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960502083814.11008D-100000@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>,
RHS Linux User <zap@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us> wrote:
>
>Remember, the gated sources are pretty much the same on any platform;
>gated does the routing, not linux. Gated was written for service in an
>NFS Backbone routing application area, its ready for most anything within
>the scope of possibilty.
>
Baloney. Gated *maintains routing tables*. It doesn't do any actual
routing at all -- it leaves that to the kernel. Nevertheless, Linux
works quite well as a router.
This is a common misconception.
>As for your question about mixed network classes on one hub, the answer
>is a resounding -NO-, unless you can partition the hub (then it would
>really be two hubs tho, wouldn't it :).
>
>>From what I remember of the subject, all nodes on a given ethernet
>segment must have the same network address.
Correct.
-hpa
