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Date:      Sat, 03 Nov 2001 06:02:42 -0600
From:      Randall Stewart <randall@stewart.chicago.il.us>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCTP and multiple default routes
Message-ID:  <3BE3DCE2.EE81B6E6@stewart.chicago.il.us>
References:  <3BE30097.C02C828D@stewart.chicago.il.us> <3BE30405.5040508@isi.edu> <20011102163709.R4360@blossom.cjclark.org>

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Crist:

Great point.. I guess with this in mind I will investagate
getting this in place (after I do a bit of debugging
of our stack) ...

R

"Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:37:25PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Randall Stewart wrote:
> >
> > > I am working on a SCTP implementation for KAME and
> > > have a question/issue with routing entries in
> > > the current freebsd kernel (4.x stream).
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > What would be nice is to have multiple default routes
> > > and then have the ability to be able to do a:
> >
> > I'm not sure multiple default routes make sense.
> 
> They are however required to be truly standards compliant. From
> RFC 1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers),
> 
>             When there is no route cache entry for the destination host
>             address (and the destination is not on the connected
>             network), the IP layer MUST pick a gateway from its list of
>             "default" gateways.  The IP layer MUST support multiple
>             default gateways.
> 
> FreeBSD is not actually compliant on this issue.
> --
> Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
>                                    |     cjclark@jhu.edu
> http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org
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