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From: cpw%sneezy@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Encore Annex Terminal server dies as NSFNET grows.
Message-ID: <8909011412.AA01086@sneezy.lanl.gov>
Date: 1 Sep 89 14:12:44 GMT
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For all you lucky folks with the above box on your network.

The Internet has reached a point where if you share the routing
information with one of these boxes it will run out of memory and
quit.  The Annex, not the network.  This Annex processes RIP messages
with the BSD 'routed' application.  Apparently, one cannot substitute a
default static route to a smart gateway for 'routed'.  Routed cannot be
turned off.

We have always indicated to our host administrators that running routed
in our environment was not a good idea.  Instead, in our network a
simple static route to a smart gateway is sufficient.

Encore has been informed.

Phil Wood,  cpw@lanl.gov