> From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
> ...
> If you simply run routing software on the host the host's applications
> still can't know about local link connectivity, and they won't know
> about the routing software either.
Again, why can't the host's applications that care open a routing
socket and to hear all about interfaces coming and going?
Or is all the world a Solaris box?
> ...
> A simple function call to find out would suffice. No MIB. Minimal
> running code. But routers are integrated beasts, while typical
> endhosts aren't.
What are the decades old getifaddrs() and the merely decade old
routing sockets, chopped liver?
Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com
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