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From: jqj@rt-jqj.Stanford.EDU (JQ Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Default routes in PC/TCP
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Date: 16 Feb 90 20:58:34 GMT
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Roger Fajman suggests that PC/TCP should be "able to listen to RIP
broadcasts for
a default route only."  There is a potential for religious wars here, but
let me
take the opposite side:  I would argue that RIP should be stamped out as
fast as
possible, and hence that anything that encourages it, e.g. such a change, is a
bad idea for the Internet as a whole.

Note that the Hosts Requirements RFCs are clear on this point:  hosts should
not
snoop on IGP traffic.

Roger is right, of course, that the Gateway Discovery Protocol, when finally
adopted and if widele implemented, would solve the problem.

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