Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

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Yes, RIP has a hard time to get it right.
> Perhaps the behavior should be configurable, either in an absolute
> sense or by permitting specification of the percentage to use.  I
> think, though, that the default should not change, since in the usual
> operating model for routed (a) it's being run by routers, not hosts,
> and (b) routers frequently have more than one path to use.
>   
It think being able to specify the failure rate might be a good way.
We could add a config keyword like
failrate=xx|ignore to the processing of /etc/gateways with a default that
matches the current behavior. That way we could at least control routed's
behavior.
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>   

Frank