Re: how to generate a host/network unreachable

Robert Forsman (thoth@cis.ufl.edu)
Wed, 05 Jun 1996 23:56:58 EDT

jeffm@iglou.com (Jeff Mcadams) ,in message <m0uRVZy-000s7uC@iglou.com>, wrote:

> First of all...this is really goofy (IMHO). "I want a default route, but
> not for these networks" Then why call it a default route?

Because it covers everything ELSE?

> IMHO, it
> would be much better to implement BGP4, blow away the default route
> completely, and viola' you get Network Unreachable messages.

BGP4 would cost you a lot more memory than a nondefault feature.

> If
> Livingston went through the trouble to implement a "nondefault" command,
> I would laugh histerically at them for wasting so much effort, and I
> imagine that many other customers would be greatly pissed off for
> wasting engineering resources doing this.

Point. You're not exactly going to have many high-bandwidth connections to
nowhere.

> If you're *that* anal retentive about things, then my suggestion would
> be to get into another field of work. :)

Yeah, right. I burned all my neural paths already. When the fall of
civilization comes I'm going to be food.