satz@MOJAVE.STANFORD.EDU.UUCP (01/28/87)
A simple solution for avoiding black holes is to keep hard coded routes out of your routing tables. The major problem is suppling the default route since connections fail without one. Since your gateways support Proxy Arp, they will provide a hardware address to send the IP packet. The gateway could then send you an ICMP Redirect if necessary. As a test, on my uVax running 4.3, I added a default route back to my own interface (with metric 0) and removed the default route that pointed to the gateway. I was able to access hosts on the rest of the campus (other subnets) and through our ARPA gateway (other nets). Sorry if this offends anyone's sense of aesthestics.