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From: cire@clash.cisco.COM
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Dumb vs. smart host routing
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Date: 17 May 88 20:02:57 GMT
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>> Date: Sat, 14 May 88 20:47:14 EDT
>> From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@BITSY.MIT.EDU>
>> To: KASTEN@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>> Cc: jqj@HOGG.CC.UOREGON.EDU, tcp-ip@SRI-NIC.ARPA
>> Subject:  Re: Dumb vs. smart host routing
>>
>>  ...
>>
>> simplified the question from "Who can route to network X?" to just a
>> simple request for a default router. That router can then send
>> redirects later when packets arrive.]
>> 
>> 			-Jeff

A reasonable idea.  It still requires the hosts involved to implement
some kind of redundancy mechanism if the default router goes down.  But
it would not have to know about routing just that it needs to find a
new default.

-c
cire|eric

Eric B. Decker
cisco Systems
Menlo Park, California

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