On 9 Oct 2000 16:04:13 -0400, Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:At 01:59 AM 10/9/00, Paul Werner wrote:
:
:>Listed above is what the Internet Standard specifies for proper
:>operation. Let's bounce that against reality as we know it:
:>
:>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q243/4/27.ASP
:
:What does it mean to plumb host routes? I couldn't decode what Microsoft is
:attempting to say in this article. If you can explain it, that would be
:great. (The other articles did make sense. Thanks for the URLs.)
I would assume they mean "connect", perhaps the term refers to the
UNIX "plumb" argument for interface configuration.
For what it's worth, I first saw the term "plumb" with respect to TCP/IP
in a Sun manual page for "ifconfig", having to do with configuring an
interface on a Solaris box. From "man ifconfig" in Solaris 2.7:
plumb Open the device associated with the physical
interface name and set up the streams needed
for TCP/IP to use the device. Before this
is done, the interface will not show up in
the output of ifconfig -a.
unplumb Destroy any streams associated with this
device and close the device. After this
command is executed, the device name should
not show up in the output of ifconfig -a.
Sun no longer supports mobile homes on their interfaces, no doubt
because of problems with their plumbing. Also from "man ifconfig":
trailers This flag previously caused a non-standard
encapsulation of inet packets on certain
link levels. Drivers supplied with this
release no longer use this flag. It is pro-
vided for compatibility, but is ignored.
-trailers Disable the use of a "trailer" link level
encapsulation.
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