Re: (PM) OR-U: no default route to learned IP address?

Tom (tom@sdf.com)
Fri, 7 Nov 1997 18:34:54 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Jake Messinger wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, John Kelly wrote:
>
> > >From: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
> > >
> > > The office router can be setup to learn the farside address.
> > > It isn't very useful though, because you can't setup a default
> > > route to the learned address. Other routers handle this better.
>
> You dont need to set up a default route to the learned address. The
> default route is used as last resort.

Err.. in uniserve does your IP network run? Perhaps a private WAN with
now default route, because the routing table has a route to everywhere?

A OR-U has not chance of having a route to every network on a Internet
connected site, so a default route is used for almost all traffic.

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Tom

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