bruce@THINK.COM.UUCP (05/20/86)
I have heard many things about deficiencies of 4.2bsd as internet gateways. I know some of these involve old bugs which I have fixed in our kernel, and some are just unimplemented (like sending ICMP redirects), and some just result in poor efficiency. However, I would really like to hear the whole scoop on what needs to be done to get it right; up until know I haven't been too concerned becuase our ``gateway'' is the primary machine here, so it doesn't do too much forwarding. It seems to work fine to other unix machines, but the throughput that Symbolics lispmachines see is horrible. Also, how different is the 4.3 implementation? --Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA --bruce@think.com, ihnp4!think!bruce; +1 617 876 1111
MILLS@USC-ISID.ARPA (05/22/86)
In response to the message sent Tue, 20 May 86 15:33:51 edt from bruce@Think.Com Bruce, Rather than trying to figure out what needs to be done to upgrade 4.2bsd to an honest gateway, why not start with the requirements for such a beast and work backwards? See RFC-985 for a first step in such a process. Dave -------