krowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz) (04/09/90)
Our campus telecommunications office (which runs the optical token ring and ethernet backbones for MIT's several thousand node network) strongly suggests that non-gateway nodes do not run any form of routing daemon. Apollo is *not* the only vendor who has found problems with the Unix /etc/routed program. In addition, since most local network have only a single gateway to the campus backbone (the optical token ring) there is no point in using dynamic routing. *all* packets not destined for another node on the local network *must* be routed through the gateway -- there is no other physical path for the packets to take! We even have gateway node which use static routing via the "route add default" command -- they are gateway which connect to another network which, in turn, only has a single gateway to the campus backbone. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)