Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dc
From: dc@graphon.com (Darren Croke)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ICMP redirects
Summary: Default gateway setup field common
Message-ID: <537@gohp3.graphon.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:04:57 GMT
References: <6592@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> <NARTEN.90Sep24210911@percival.albany.edu>
Organization: GraphOn Corp., San Jose, CA
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In article <NARTEN.90Sep24210911@percival.albany.edu>, narten@cs.albany.edu (Thomas Narten) writes:
> 
> Note: To get a redirect, you must be sending the misdirected datagram
> to a router in the first place, so there is still a need for finding a
> viable router.  The IETF Router discovery group is working on that
> problem.
> 
It's currently common for X terminals to have a setup field to allow
a default gateway to be specified.

Darren Croke
dc@graphon.com