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From: braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: flooded with routing updates?
Message-ID: <8807081637.AA03932@braden.isi.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 88 16:37:41 GMT
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		One way to get lots of routes showing up in a host is to be on
	an Ethernet with several gateways that are connected to different
	regional or backbone networks.  If you want to do robust routing, your
	host needs a route to each reachable net and that number is getting
	pretty large today.

This is not a requirement for "robust routing."  An Internet host should
only need to know a few default gateways, and take Redirects to find out
about the others.  This is just another example why hosts wiretapping
gateway IGP's is not a part of the Internet architecture, and is
often a bad idea.

Bob Braden