RE: TCP/IP and programming connectivity problem (routing tablequestion)

Fair enough, but "learned" how? If not static and not yet learned, then... how 
does it become "learned"?

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   3. RE: TCP/IP and programming connectivity problem (routing
>      tablequestion) (michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>Dynamic routes are the routes that are learned.
>
>On Sun, 30 May 2004 16:46:05 -0400, "Tom Liotta" <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>said:
>> midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>> >   6. Re: TCP/IP and programming connectivity problem (routing
>> >      table question) (Larry Bolhuis)
>> >
>> >   You are right on.  Internet RFCs stipulate that a host should not 
>> >respond to traffic from a host to which it does not have a route either 
>> >static (entered manually) or learned. OS/400 follows the RFCs as closely 
>> >as possible IP Routing is no exception. Some other 'wannabe' OSs will 
>> >simply respond back through the router (gateway) from which the packet 
>> >originated but this is a security exposure.
>> 
>> Yow, if true, I have seriously misunderstood the whole purpose of default
>> routers pointing to routers and the whole Internet thing including DNS
>> and other elements. I've seen dynamic routes appearing all the time on
>> every AS/400 I've ever run TCP/IP on.
>> 
>> I assume that some clarification will clear up what you're saying here.


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