Hi,

I wasn't following the whole track, so I may be totally of topic. If so, 
mea culpa...

 From reading you mail I do not see a requirement for routing or a default 
route. If you just have multiple network cards in your box and a single IP 
network/sub-network per NIC, then all networks are connected networks. In 
an IP network there is no need for routing protocols or a default route to 
communicate with connected networks. If you have IP networks/sub-networks 
that are not directly connected to your box then you need either a default 
route or a routing protocol to reach them. In that case dynamic routing 
protocols -such as OSPF or RIPv2- can provide significant benefit.

My question would be, why do you need a default route if all networks are 
directly connected networks?

Later,
/Markus.

At 02:35 28.07.2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>[ On Saturday, July 28, 2001 at 09:56:27 (+0900), itojun@iijlab.net wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: should the default route get a new interface automatically?
> >
> >       amount of dynamism does not have anything to do with justification
> >       for routing daemons.  all you need to do is
> >       - advertise routes (like just default) from two of your routers
> >       - listen to them on your server (routed -q)
> >       then
>
>But I have no routers in this case -- just multiple networks.  No
>routing happens, the server just sits on multiple networks (production,
>test, etc.).  There are no routes to advertise in the first place.
>
>(in fact I want to do even more of this -- I've an entire separate
>DEChub900 with switches and hubs and stuff that I want to set up for
>testing equipment and systems in a mostly isolated environment; a safe
>place where I can let wild things loose, so to speak)
>
>None of this changes the fact that the default route learns the
>interface dynamically now, but then gets it stuck.  One shouldn't need a
>routing daemon to unstick it, especially not when the kernel can
>easily dynamically re-learn similar interface flags on other routes.
>
>(I won't even mention similar appletalk problems yet... :-)
>
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