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: From: thoth@purplefrog.com
: To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
: Subject: Re: Internet Meltdown
: Date: Saturday, September 14, 1996 8:02 PM
:
: "CygNet Support" <support@cyg.net> ,in message
<199609142155.RAA04283@granite.c
: yg.net>, wrote:
:
: > Please excuse my post of this but I thought some of us would be
interested.
: > I would also like to hear about what Livingston thinks of this article
: > since it points fingers at Cisco.
:
: set ether0 routing off
:
: And then put the routes in manually.
:
: I must be a novice because I believe that routing protocols should be
: used when the routing information really changes, like when a dual-homed
: network loses one of its major links. When the subordinate network has
: only network connection, the route should be hand-entered in the table
: of the upstream router. Any upstream ISP that isn't doing this could
: suffer from bogus route advertisement.
:
: For fun, broadcast that you have the route for your competition and
: see if upstream believes you.