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From: almquist@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU ("Philip Almquist")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: FNS routing
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Date: 26 Jul 90 18:21:58 GMT
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Antonio,
> It seems that if FNS is smart enough to know which board to use to ping a 
> particular address it ought to know how to pass packets it receives to the
> right side of the network.  Are we missing something here and doing something
> wrong or is FNS just brain-dead when it comes to routing?

	I have never used the Fusion software, but I did observe that
nothing in the command file you included looked like a command telling
Fusion that it was permitted to act as a router.  To quote from RFC-1122:

      The host software MUST NOT automatically move into gateway
      mode if the host has more than one interface, as the
      operator of the machine may neither want to provide that
      service nor be competent to do so.

						Philip