Re: RE: AD request / L2 Triggers Chapter Statement

Vernon Schryver <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:37:21 -0600 (MDT)
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> From: Lloyd Wood <[email protected]>

> ...
> If you simply run routing software on the host the host's applications
> still can't know about local link connectivity, and they won't know
> about the routing software either.

Again, why can't the host's applications that care open a routing 
socket and to hear all about interfaces coming and going?

Or is all the world a Solaris box?


> ...
> A simple function call to find out would suffice. No MIB. Minimal
> running code. But routers are integrated beasts, while typical
> endhosts aren't.

What are the decades old getifaddrs() and the merely decade old
routing sockets, chopped liver?


Vernon Schryver    [email protected]

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