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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Question about route vs. routed
Message-ID: <3693@phri.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 18:57:10 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	I'm sure this is a naive question, but could somebody give me a
quick rundown on what /etc/route and /etc/routed do on BSD unix?  We're on
an ethernet with only one connection to the Internet.  People have told me
that instead of running routed on each of my diskless workstations, all I
really have to do is run route from /etc/rc to set up a default route to a
gateway host.  Will I see any difference in performance?  What happens when
that default gateway host goes down?  How will the machines know to switch
to another gateway.

	I'm sure you can tell, from the level of the questions, that I'm
sort of new to this internetworking game.  Maybe somebody could point me at
the appropriate reading material (RFCs, etc) to fill me in on all this
routing magic?
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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