Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!VENERA.ISI.EDU!braden From: braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: flooded with routing updates? Message-ID: <8807081759.AA04002@braden.isi.edu> Date: 8 Jul 88 17:59:23 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 I have a problem with the statement "host should only need to know *a few* default gateways". How does a host learn about more than one default gateway? How does a host dynamically learn anything about routers without participating in the gateway protocol?? [I know the answer "ES-IS protocol". I mean today. now.] Kent England, Boston University Kent, A proposal for an ICMP Gateway Discovery Query/Report pair has undergone extensive review in an IETF WG, and is nearing (I hope!) RFC stage. There is also a trial implementation underway. So, this problem should be solved soon. Meanwhile, we have to depend upon host configuration information, as we always have. Bob Braden