Re: Filling in the gateway address

[David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>]

On Apr 5, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> 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.


Hardly at all for IPv4, but we do it for IPv6.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
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