Re: Did no one ever realize a Backup-Route with OpenBSD ???

[David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:39:11PM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:24:54PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > btw, _why_ can't I have two (or 3 or 4) default routes, other than
> > that nobody already implemented it?
> 
> No reason.  In fact it's a requirement to support multiple default routes.
> (RFC 1122, see par. 3.3.1.2 and 3.5)  There are issues involved in
> determining which of multiple default routes to actually use.

It iscertainly not a requirement.  I challenge you to quote the text
that specifies that behavior.

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