[28830] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IGPs and services?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan C. Andregg)
Thu May 18 10:15:00 2000
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:14:55 -0500
From: "Bryan C. Andregg" <bandregg@redhat.com>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, ww@shadowfax.styx.org,
"'nicholas harteau'" <nrh@ikami.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:14:58PM -0400, jlewis@lewis.org mailed:
> Running a routing protocol on a unix box doesn't mean you're using it as a
> router. Perhaps he just wants OSPF on a few servers so they can send
> 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 situati=
on
already?
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