[6675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Which RFC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kamau Wanguhu)
Thu Jan 2 13:28:25 1997
From: "Kamau Wanguhu" <kamau@ns1.africaonline.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
Cc: <amb@xara.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:32:18 -0500
RFC 1338 makes mention of this in regard to CIDR.
Later
Kamau Wanguhu
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> From: Alex.Bligh <amb@xara.net>
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Cc: amb@xara.net
> Subject: Which RFC?
> Date: Thursday, January 02, 1997 10:16 AM
>
> 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.
>
> Alex Bligh
> Xara Networks
>
>
