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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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