Subject: Re: User-level ARP handling
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/02/1996 06:17:05
>>> Redirects are handled in the kernel.  Should they be moved to a
>>> daemon as well?
>> Probably.
> Doesn't gated do precisely this?

No, not quite.  gated listens for redirects not so it can do basic
redirect handling, but rather so it can _de_install any that it doesn't
want installed, because it knows the kernel will always install the
route implied by the redirect.  In particular, I think gated wants to
time out redirect-generated routes, which the kernel by default doesn't
do IIRC.

					der Mouse

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