[6671] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Which RFC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Rhett)
Thu Jan 2 12:10:33 1997
To: amb@xara.net (Alex.Bligh)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:02:43 -0800 (PST)
From: "Joe Rhett" <joe@Navigist.Com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701021516.PAA27959@diamond.xara.net> from "Alex.Bligh" at Jan 2, 97 03:16:54 pm
> Anyone know *which* RFC says a packets should be routed using the
> most specific route in a routing table, not (for instance) the first
> route in the table that matches, or, for instance, using a less specific
> route that has a better metric? This is so basic I hardly
> know where to find it, but I have a (for the time being anonymous)
> systems vendor who really prefers the way their kernel does it ....
> Oddly enough it doesn't work well with subnetting.
RFC 1520, 1519, 1518 in order of relevance. You should probably read
them in numerical order tho.. :)
