Re: Filling in the gateway address

[Ragnar Kjørstad <anaconda ragnark vestdata no>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:49:24AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 09:45 -0500, Mark Hamzy wrote:
> > I've been asked to look into calculating at least something to fill in
> > for an initial stab at a gateway address. I know you can't determine
> > what the real router's address is. But you could get the user at least
> > close. What do y'all think about that in general?
> 
> We used to do it, you're always wrong about half the time.  Some people
> use the first, some use the last.  It's just not something that you can
> guess.  

Well, there is always router discovery as defined by RFC 1256. Not sure
how widely implemented it is, though.

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Ragnar Kjørstad
Software Engineer
Platform Computing